Good utility, but I had a few specific itches to scratch with SpahQL:
* Declarative syntax for selections, such that selection queries may be handed between implementations in other languages
* Imperative syntax for updates, such that updates may be idiomatic to the language in which the spahql library has been ported (linq meets this criteria)
In essence all SpahQL is, is a shorthand syntax for generating traversal and descent functions, which output a proxy object for reading to and writing from the selected nodes.
* Declarative syntax for selections, such that selection queries may be handed between implementations in other languages
* Imperative syntax for updates, such that updates may be idiomatic to the language in which the spahql library has been ported (linq meets this criteria)
In essence all SpahQL is, is a shorthand syntax for generating traversal and descent functions, which output a proxy object for reading to and writing from the selected nodes.