Groovy 4 and the new integrated query module

2021-09-27 Thread Milles, Eric (TR Technology)
Is there still time to reconsider the name of the new integrated query module (groovy-ginq) before Groovy 4 is released and the choice is locked in? I ask for a couple of reasons: 1) the "g" is redundant; groovy-ginq implies "groovy groovy integrated query". When gcontracts was

Re: Groovy 4 and the new integrated query module

2021-09-27 Thread MG
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

Re: Groovy 4 and the new integrated query module

2021-09-27 Thread OCsite
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

2021-09-27 Thread Paul King
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