Comments on: MTS06 - LINQ and C# http://brian.pontarelli.com/2006/04/12/mts06-linq-and-c/ Brian Pontarelli Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:00:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Brian Pontarelli http://brian.pontarelli.com/2006/04/12/mts06-linq-and-c/#comment-28 Brian Pontarelli Mon, 17 Apr 2006 15:58:03 +0000 http://brian.pontarelli.com/2006/04/12/mts06-linq-and-c/#comment-28 That's really good to know. This was something I was asking about specifically at the summit. It is essentially a block that has a DSL inside it. This is something that I've thought that most other languages should start adopting in order to allow IDEs and parsers to handle these blocks better. I don't know of any other languages that support this except C#. Anyone else know of any? One other question is why not delineate the LINQ with a block instead of making it context bound? This might make the code simpler to read. Something like the ruby execution blocks: %l{LINQ statement} That’s really good to know. This was something I was asking about specifically at the summit. It is essentially a block that has a DSL inside it. This is something that I’ve thought that most other languages should start adopting in order to allow IDEs and parsers to handle these blocks better. I don’t know of any other languages that support this except C#. Anyone else know of any?

One other question is why not delineate the LINQ with a block instead of making it context bound? This might make the code simpler to read. Something like the ruby execution blocks:

%l{LINQ statement}

]]> By: Matt Warren http://brian.pontarelli.com/2006/04/12/mts06-linq-and-c/#comment-26 Matt Warren Sun, 16 Apr 2006 07:07:40 +0000 http://brian.pontarelli.com/2006/04/12/mts06-linq-and-c/#comment-26 Brian, the new 'keywords' added to C# 3.0 are not keywords at all. They are context sensitive just like the additional non-keywords that were introduced in 2.0 like 'yield'. You can safely declare a variable named 'from' without confusing it with a query. Brian, the new ‘keywords’ added to C# 3.0 are not keywords at all. They are context sensitive just like the additional non-keywords that were introduced in 2.0 like ‘yield’. You can safely declare a variable named ‘from’ without confusing it with a query.

]]> By: Derek http://brian.pontarelli.com/2006/04/12/mts06-linq-and-c/#comment-25 Derek Thu, 13 Apr 2006 03:49:41 +0000 http://brian.pontarelli.com/2006/04/12/mts06-linq-and-c/#comment-25 Good stuff, Brian. I've been reading some of Erik Meijer's articles on LINQ and the subject matter intrigues me. You didn't mention "Haskell" once in you post, though. :) Good stuff, Brian. I’ve been reading some of Erik Meijer’s articles on LINQ and the subject matter intrigues me.

You didn’t mention “Haskell” once in you post, though.
:)

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