Phillip Cloud
Phillip Cloud
`count()` is still tied to a table, and Ibis can't easily determine the intent with such an expression (using it combination with other essentially random unrelated expressions).
This issue also isn't super well motivated. Is there some concrete use case here?
Also your examples using sql are exactly what calling `as_scalar()` will produce.
I think this is best we can do for now without a more strongly motivated use case or reasons why combining two scalar expressions in arbitrary ways *must* "just work"....
I would like to close out the Map, Array and Struct API improvement PRs and start over with **just one** of them, with a very specific use case that doesn't...
> I occasionally "just want an ibis expression, I'm not sure what I was handed" `ibis.literal` is not the API for that. Does it really make sense to pass arbitrary...
Is it a big lift to just keep a function around that does this in whatever code you're writing that needs this behavior?
Yeah, I moved stuff around so it's become outdated. Probably not worth it to fix the link right now.
Ok, I've started going down the rabbit hole of supporting this on as many of our backends that support arrays as possible.
Rebasing, will merge on green.