the `where` function would take an AST representat...

# language-proposals

[groostav]

the where function would take an AST representation of the body --effectively it takes source code, and then transcompiles the AST for it.name == "bob" into WHERE c.name == bob, of the equivalent mongo thing (iirc something resembling {"where" { eq { field { "fname" }, "bob" }}
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what your describing is effectively breaking the AST down through some of the nifty reflection mechanisms built into kotlin --the fact that Model::fname is trivially converted to a KProperty is a really cool feature, but it doesn't go anywhere near far enough imho. When you get into queries of even minimal sophistication this is going to get ulgy