RichEnumerables

So i was digging through some old posts of Adam’s and found one where he’s pointing to article on MSDN on the new language features in C# 3.0. It got me thinking about how you can bring some of those features down to C# 2.0 and I came up with the concept of a RichEnumerable. This type can be used for querying using specifications.
The interface implements the IEnumerable interface but extends it with a "Where" method.

public interface IRichEnumerable< T > : IEnumerable< T >
{
  IEnumerable< T > Where( ISpecification< T > criteria );
}

The implementation so far looks like this.

    internal class RichEnumerable< T > : IRichEnumerable< T >
    {
        private readonly IEnumerable< T > _items;

        public RichEnumerable( IEnumerable< T > items )
        {
            _items = items;
        }

        public IEnumerable< T > Where( ISpecification< T > criteria )
        {
            foreach( T item in _items )
            {
                if( criteria.IsSatisfiedBy( item ) )
                {
                    yield return item;
                }
            }
        }

        IEnumerator< T > IEnumerable< T >.GetEnumerator( )
        {
            return _items.GetEnumerator( );
        }

        public IEnumerator GetEnumerator( )
        {
            return ( ( IEnumerable< T > )this ).GetEnumerator( );
        }
    }

This could be extended further to return a RichEnumerable from the where method instead of an IEnumerable so you can filter further.

Just a quick lunch time idea… source is provided.