On 27 sept. 09, at 12:08, Manik Surtani wrote: > Lexers are parsers are not difficult (a simple ANTLR grammar takes > very little effort, for example), but that is orthoginal to this > discussion. I believe the very term DSL is misleading (since DSL > implies a separate grammar), but this is more for an intuitive > builder API for query creation. And yes, while this does imply > knowledge of the API, it is certainly far less verbose and more > expressive than the existing query construction mechanism.
That's untrue. External DSLs imply a separate grammar. Internal DSLs imply using the hosting language to create a fluent API. _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev
