Re: Groovy 4 and the new integrated query module

Just as a followup on this, in the release notes I have mentioned gquery as an alternative shorthand for groovy integrated query. The module name didn't change but if folks have a problem with ginq, they can start using gquery when referring to the technology instead. If that alternative name (whic

Re: Groovy 4 and the new integrated query module

Yes, naming is hard. We didn't go with linq with concerns about trademarks. We didn't go with groovy-sql. That might be kind of confusing. We currently don't support SQL - at least not in the way most people would expect in terms of the data you can query on. >From memory, there was an informal d

Re: Groovy 4 and the new integrated query module

MG, > On 27 Sep 2021, at 20:36, MG wrote: > I assume with slur you probably mean "chink" > (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chink )? I wondered too, myself :) Searching, aside of the above, I've also found that the perfectly nice and drinkable word “gin” might

Re: Groovy 4 and the new integrated query module

My input would be: 1. I like the name "GINQ" = "Groovy Integrated Query", compared to "LINQ" = "Language Integrated Query", since LINQ has become synonymous with C#/.NET, and GINQ gives it fitting Groovy spin G-) 2. My association with Ginq would be a Ginkgo tree (https://en.wikipedia.or