Conceptual question about the ORM specific implementations about specification HOT 2 CLOSED

As software developers we're often forced to make choices between the ideal and the pragmatic, and I think this is another example of this kind of choice.

If you wanted to be "more ideal" with regard to exposing features of underlying ORM and implementation details, you could either avoid using AsNoTracking and AsSplitQuery completely, or you could ensure they were abstract "hints" the specification could pass along to any implementation, which could leverage or ignore them as it saw fit.

Of course, in reality the real implementation of the query provider will make a difference in the actual behavior of the system, but the general goal is to limit the extent to which such differences impact our design of our system and its business rules / domain model.

from specification.

Thanks for the thoughts. I'm satisfied with that. I'm going to leave this open for 24 hours in case anyone else chimes in and then will close the issue.

from specification.