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From: "Steve D" <nospam_steved94@comcast.net>
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Subject: Lambda expressions? LINQ?
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I've been doing some c# programming and have just started using LINQ 
(language integrated query).

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 list of strings) 
into it's individual strings and return an array of unique elements... in 
one line of source code.  When it worked after less than a minute of 
fiddling I sat back and said... Wow!

Anything under way to make this kind of power available in Ada (outside of 
A#)?

Regards,
Steve