From: Ken Bloom <kbloom@...>
Date: 2006-12-06T10:45:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Lisp comprehensions => SQL

On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 07:58:56 +0900, David Vallner wrote:

> Victor "Zverok" Shepelev wrote:
>> Hi all.
>> 
>> Random idea, just for fun - using "list comprehensions" for SQL queries
>> generation.
>>
>> [SNIP]
>>
>> But the realization of above seems to be interesting task (for RubyQuiz, may
>> be?)
>> 
> 
> Well, to work with blocks, you'd need to involve ParseTree or something
> like that, unless you're willing to offload some of the logic back to
> the interpreter (gruesomely laggy). That might be a little out of scope
> for a RubyQuiz. Then again, having seen some of the more golfy /
> braintwisting solutions to some problems, maybe not :)

It already was a ruby quiz. Or at least something close enough to it was.
See Ruby Quiz #95 and its solutions.

--Ken Bloom


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Ken Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/