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Subject: Re: Lambda expressions? LINQ?
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On Sep 18, 2:59=A0am, "Steve D" <nospam_steve...@comcast.net> wrote:
> "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter....@spam.acm.org> wrote in messagenews=
:h8qf72$jv2$2@news.tornevall.net...
>
> > Steve D wrote:
>
> >> Using LINQ and the .NET framework I was able to query an XML document =
for
> >> all elements with a given element name, select an attribute with a
> >> specific name, split the content of the attribute (a comma separated l=
ist
> >> of strings) into it's individual strings and return an array of unique
> >> elements... in one line of source code. ... Wow!
>
> > Sounds like a write-only language to me.
>
> Oh, so you are familiar with LINQ and find that you cannot make queries t=
hat
> are readable?
> My experience is not the same.

It would certainly be interesting to see this one-liner (or even an
approximation to it!).