Darren Duncan

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icon company Muldis Data Systems icon location Victoria, BC, Canada icon location Experienced software developer specializing in database applications, web services, and e-commerce.

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Display CQL values to the user as valid CQL expression source code

Note that one way this could specifically be made an Engine issue is if the generic fix takes the form of an Engine function that takes an arbitrary value object...

Make test suite test uncertainties in some useful way

I will be implementing this ticket tomorrow, along with other XML test suite improvements.

Make Engine validate and correctly handle its own direct inputs

New issue #73 (Make external function interface validate result is a CQL Any value) addresses a specific low hanging fruit of issue #69; #73 gives a large impact, maybe a...

Multiply/Divide with Quantity gives wrong result

These failing CQL Engine tests reflect this bug: * CqlArithmeticFunctionsTest -> Divide1Q1Q

Multiply/Divide with Quantity gives wrong result

A related bug exists in the Translator; it doesn't recognize the unit conversion should occur either. Run the following CQL: ``` Equivalent(1'g/cm3' / 1'g/cm3', 1.0) ``` Expected result: ``` true...

Multiply/Divide with Quantity gives wrong result

The described bug is not just with Divide but also with Multiply. ``` define a : 1.0 'cm' * 2.0 'cm' ``` This we would expect to result in `2.0...

Multiply/Divide with Quantity gives wrong result

These failing CQL Engine tests also reflect this bug: * CqlArithmeticFunctionsTest -> Multiply1CMBy2CM

Perl5 support specced in roast is questionable

Anything related to details of embedding other languages should not be included in the core Raku test suite or roast. The tests / roast for Perl 5 embedding should be...

Remove P5 regexes from Raku

I feel that any kind of regex other than the official Raku-specific grammar do not belong in core and should definitely be the domain of optionally installable modules. Anything for...

Remove P5 regexes from Raku

It is onerous to stay 100% backwards compatible, and it is reasonable to break some things when that gives valuable gains in return. Besides-which, the main promise for backwards-compatibility concerns...