Marko A. Rodriguez created TINKERPOP-1496:
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Summary: Should a head-as("x") always be a select("x")?
Key: TINKERPOP-1496
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TINKERPOP-1496
Project: TinkerPop
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: process
Affects Versions: 3.2.2
Reporter: Marko A. Rodriguez
There are two steps that treat a head of {{as("x")}} as {{select("x")}}.
{code}
match(as("x").out().as("y"), ...) => match(select("x").out().as("y"), ...)
where(as("x").has("name")) => where(select("x").has("name"))
{code}
I don't like how these steps are "special" in this respect and I think that it
would be elegant if a head-{{as()}} has a consistent meaning for all inner
traversals.
Thus, I'm wondering if we should make it such that EVERY head {{as("x")}} gets
translated to {{select("x")}}.
{code}
addE("knows").to(as("x").out("mother"))
property("name", as("x").out("mother").values("name"))
{code}
I believe this would be backwards compatible in the sense that there really
isn't a reason why an inner traversal head-{{as()}} would be used to label.
Dunno -- definitely need [~dkuppitz]/etc. feedback.
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