About Queries
This concludes my series of posts about queries. I will still discuss them occassionally and if anyone has any specific questions then I would be very glad to address them.
Query Expression Posts
1. Comprehending Comprehensions
What are queries? How are queries treated by the compiler?
How are local variables introduced by queries?
3. Thus Quoth the Humble Programmer
What are expression trees? What are lambdas translated into?
4. Reading and Writing Queriess
What mental models are useful in reading and writing query expressions? What are the scoping rules for queries?
5. A Model for Query Interpretation
How can we think about query evaluation? Is it possible to think of queries in terms of the queries and not the rewrites? What is the conceptual model for Linq to Objects queries?
6. How Linq to Objects Queries Work
What causes Linq to Objects queries to be lazily evaluated? How are the results computed? What underlies the conceptual model for Linq to Objects? Why do queries exhibit their debugging behavior?
7. Having Trouble with Queries
What constitutes good error messages? How are effective error messages for queries generated in the face of type inference and significant syntactic sugar?
8. Another Model for Query Interpretation
Are there other models for query interpretation besides an imperative one? Why are some queries declarative and others not?