You Learn Something New Every Day Department: Saw this interesting example (via Software Development with Scott) of ECMAScript for XML, or E4X for short. It’s an extension to JavaScript that strikes me at least as the most intuitive way I’ve yet seen to manipulate XML in code. I’ll admit I haven’t yet explored how LINQ will handle this … I’m now motivated to do so, for comparison purposes.
E4X: We Could Use This In the C# World
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E4X is awesome! Actionscript 3.0 implements E4X and creating Flex 2 applications that manipulate XML is so much easier using this syntax. I too would love to see something like this in C#. I also have not looked at LINQ yet.
Not C#, but VB9 is very close.