A compiler for the XL programming language has to produce code which encodes the structure of the query in an instance q of de.grogra.xl.qnp.Query. For every type T which is primitive or Object, the class Query declares a generator method (Section 11.2.1, “Generator Method Declarations”) named findAMatches with return type T and a single parameter of type de.grogra.xl.runtime.Model. A is the type affix of T (Section 6.1, “Type Affixes and Type Letters”).

At run-time, the invocation of the query is done by a generator method invocation (Section 16.2.2, “Generator Method Invocations”) of the suitable generator method on q. The single argument to the method is the current run-time model (Section 3.2, “Run-Time Model”) that corresponds to the compile-time model of the query. This sequentially yields the values of the query.

The implementation of the generator methods in Query at first obtains an instance qs of de.grogra.xl.qnp.QueryState by the invocation of the method createQueryState on the current extent (Section 3.2.1, “Current Extent”) with the current extended state of the virtual machine (Chapter 4, Extended State of the Virtual Machine) as argument. Then qs is set up to represent the query state of the query. For example, the current binding of query variables is accessible through the query state.

Finally, after all values have been yielded, the method invocation qs.getExtent().dispose(qs) is performed.