Maximilian Roos

> Any plan to solve this bug? We're rethinking how columns are resolved, so this may get pushed into that effort. The effort is taking a bit longer than hoped;...

Sorry to take a while to respond. I think I'm understanding 85% of this,so forgive me if I'm slow. I can see two points here; - discriminate between scoped and...

> It just one point here: use .foo for ephemeral variables. Totally, but is there an easy way to define ephemeral variables to beginners?

Yes OK, that is complete in the examples above. How about when it's a variable; for example: ```elm func add a b -> a + b # or func add...

OK great, I see, thanks. I think it's tractable. I don't think it's that friendly, and it's much more alien for those who are used to SQL. Do others share...

Thanks for the list of findings, that's v helpful to anchor around. > Do others share a concern that represents hierarchies inconsistently? For example `alb` is a relation. But to...

Great, thanks for the productive discussion and exploration effort.

I've been working with `jq` recently. They have a take of this, but I think with much easier semantics: - All data references use a leading period - The "root"...

As discussed on the call, I'm not sure my example was correct — instead `.albums.title` is already within the `.albums` scope, and so should be: - `.title` - ...or `$.albums.title`...

Reopening as this is under consideration again. Possibly we start a new issue synthesizing where we're at, given the amount of history though.