Sequences, Lists, and Relational Constraint Expressions
John Caron
caron at unidata.ucar.edu
Wed May 10 16:47:47 PDT 2006
>
> I like this idea. I think its important, where possible, that the data
> structures "know" what are the valid queries allowed on them. Sequences
> are doing 2 things: 1) indicating that an array of Structure has a
> variable length (ie a List). This gives us "ragged arrays" when nested,
> which is quite powerful. 2) indicating that relational queries are
> allowed on the fields. Obviously very powerful, but difficult to
> implement efficiently for all fields.
Right now, you can do one without the other.
^ can't
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