Michael Bayne
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having a separate deleteFrom(record).where(...).delete() builder, but from(record).where(...).delete() was so much nicer that I decided that preventing the specification of invalid clauses could be deferred from compile to runtime. I could do some fiddly things with return types and have from() return a builder that then subsequently pigeon-holed you into deletability or not depending on whether you called things like orderBy(), but to do so in Java would require that I override every method to specialize its return type, which presents something of a maintenance annoyance.
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