[Versa] Issue 3

[Michael Olson]

>
> I agree with the above.  However, even the process of (parser -->  
> optimizer --> results) will be slower then (parser --> results).
>
> I guess what I am saying is it is:
>
> *very* common to use traverse
> *almost as very* common to use filter
> *far* less common to need the statement.  After all, you probably  
> specify 2 of the three parameters in the filter so you know the  
> statement
> *hardly* common to get just the predicates.
>


I guess I should have finished my thought.  Because of the above, then  
it makes sense to have some syntactic sweetness (as long as it is not  
molasses) for the first to cases (like we have).

Maybe the answer is

"statement(traversal expression)" and let the engine work this out....

That would certainly let us stay at 1.0

Mike

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