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                                            James Clark

Handle intersections for mapping/list constructors and cloneWithType

Also need to handle annotations (as in #1258).

`value:toJson` has not mentioned on how to handle tagged data values

Tagged data values should be output as strings. The other way round should work too.

Clarification on propagating CET of the conditional expression to the then else expressions

Generally the spec only says anything about propagating the conditionally expected type when it's not obvious how it should be propagated. When the spec says nothing about how to propagate...

Interaction of wait-action and isolated

I think we probably will want to encourage alternate-receive instead of alternate-wait. If we fix #1276, then I think that should work.

Inferred error type for named workers

We decided to get rid of this for Swan Lake because the syntax does not interact well with the `distinct` feature. See #698. We need a better way to do...

Named worker that is statically guaranteed not to outlive its function

If we were to use named workers to represent dataflow blocks, then it would be a real pain for named workers not to have full access to parameters.

Named worker that is statically guaranteed not to outlive its function

Also note that allowing workers to access mutable local variables (at the cost of the workers running on the same thread) would also be beneficial for dataflow, and would allow...

Support parameterize sub section of resource path segment

Ballerina's model of a resource path is a list of string segments. A URL is also syntactically a list of segments. So it's natural by default for the HTTP lister...

Support parameterize sub section of resource path segment

Talking to @hasithaa this is mostly a client problem. When the HTTP API isn't very RESTful (as in the Google case), it seems to me that remote methods might work...