Steve McCanne

Repro is with Zed commit 9c0f097. Most functions don't handle `missing` properly. In general, a function should return missing if any required argument is missing, e.g., ``` $ zed -version...

The `-user` commit flag sets the author metadata. Maybe it should be called `-author`. When making this change, let's update the zed README too.

document meta-queries

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We should document all the meta-queries that are available in the meta-query section of the zed readme.

We should add checks to the API so that pools, branches, etc cannot be given names that match the ksuid structure. Also update docs, e.g., zed README

this causes a parse error... ``` sample:=any() by typeof() ``` we should fix the peg grammar to not let the sample operator get in the name here.

To avoid confusion with Zed type values, I think we should adopt a convention other than angle brackets for syntax examples like this. Caps or italics, maybe? This is everywhere...

This commit provides the first most basic implementation of the vector cache for ZST objects. The new "zed dev vcache" command is added to support some ztests for exercising the...

Key-value lookups in Zed runtime

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We should have a way to issue queries to a sub-pool to populate a map literal that can be referenced in the Zed runtime... e.g., we will need syntax to...

fill() should take a value not a type

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Fill should take a value instead of type and use the value as a template of defaults instead of filling the results with nils. This will provide one means for...

A bunch of improvements have been made to ZST and now the spec if out of date. We should update the spec to reflect the new marshaled data structures representing...