[elephant-devel] Query System

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I've digested Ian and Leslie's comments on this thread and think we're  
all on the same page now. I've been reading different papers and other  
OODBMs in trying to propose a querying syntax and am pretty close to  
completing this now. However, I have some doubts for which I'll need  
someone's help with, which will allow me to continue drafting my  
proposal.

I believe Ian (if it was someone else, I apologize for not quoting  
you) mentioned that we could, as a later phase, introspect the class  
and ask for the indices available in order to do some query  
optimizations. So my question goes somewhere along those lines and I'm  
wondering (please excuse my limited knowledge of Lisp and thank you  
for helping my learning curve) if it's possible to obtain the list of  
slots and/or slot-accessor functions for a given class.

Thanks,
Daniel