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Agreed, that could be an easier path for solving the issue. @whscullin any thoughts on how feasible this would be?

@christopherswenson will any of your recent work on functions be able to help with this? How should we handle arguments that need the "date_part" type?

This issue came up again in Slack: https://malloy-community.slack.com/archives/C025JAK8G0N/p1691111355523209 Perhaps we do some kind of special quoting or escaping to indicate that a keyword should be passed through directly, and not...

This came up again: https://malloy-community.slack.com/archives/C025JAK8G0N/p1703085766365359 In this case, the user is trying to replicate the following SQL query in Malloy that computes monthly revenue, with a comparison to the same...

I think I hit the same issue earlier when attempting to build a demo notebook. My exact case is slightly different but I think the root cause might be the...

`:::` as "safe_cast" makes sense to me. I think it's a common enough pattern that it deserves its own operator.

I think this is the same issue I ran into when trying to build a sample analysis on the GA4 public dataset. The queries in [this file](https://github.com/malloydata/malloy-samples/blob/9ab12c70c32c7f365e76136f05e653b97a26a030/bigquery/ga4/examples.malloy#L29-L43) should provide an...