[Python-3000] Brainstorming: literal construction hooks

[Kendall Clark]

On Apr 23, 2006, at 8:28 AM, Bill Birch wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 12:53 am, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
>> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>> It's an interesting idea; it's been brought up before but nobody  
>>> AFAIK
>>> has ever implemented it. I like the scoping requirement.
>>
>> can we add support for XML literals while we're at it?
>>
>>     http://effbot.org/zone/idea-xml-literal.htm
>>
> Have a look at Comega
> http://research.microsoft.com/Comega/
> which throws in SQL syntax just for good measure.

Actually, I believe that if any project is especially interesting in  
re: Py3k and XML literals, it's LINQ:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/future/linq/

As I understand things (since I'm really a Unix guy), the Comega  
stuff got folded into LINQ.

Cheers,
Kendall