From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 29 Jul 2025 20:56:18 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
      
   > On 7/29/2025 7:07 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>   
   >> So why does it have its own extra mechanism for formulating the query,   
   >> then? You yourself are admitting there is no benefit in that. Yet here   
   >> you are, having to go through that same extra layer of mechanism.   
   >   
   > It is not an extra layer. It is an alternative layer.   
      
   How would you redo your example to not use that layer?   
      
   > Transactional/operation code use an object model but don't work on huge   
   > data. If the data is huge, then you paginate.   
      
   So ORMs are not scalable?   
      
   > If your religious beliefs do not allow you to use foreach loop, then:   
   >   
   > foreach(T1 o in whatever)   
   > {   
   >      ...   
   > }   
   >   
   > can be done as:   
   >   
   > IEnumerator en = whatever.GetEnumerator();   
   > while(en.MoveNext())   
   > {   
   >      T1 o = en.Current;   
   >      ...   
   > }   
   >   
   > But I really don't see any reason to do that.   
      
   How would you handle level breaks?   
      
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