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Rules - Required bindings doesn't evaluate correctly

Open rjsheperd opened this issue 3 years ago • 1 comments

Attempting to follow the Datomic Rules with required bindings documentation and discovered this bug in DataScript.

Here's a short example:

 (d/q '[:find ?need
            :in $ % ?name
            :where (needs ?name ?need)]
    '[["george" :wants :foo]
      ["george" :needs :foo]
      ["sally"  :needs :bar]]
    '[[(needs ?name ?need) [?name :needs ?need]]] "george")
;; => #{[:foo]} (expected)

;; Now try with ?name being a required binding by placing it in brackets
;; -- (needs ?name ?need) -> (needs [?name] ?need)

(d/q '[:find ?need
            :in $ % ?name
            :where (needs ?name ?need)]
    '[["george" :wants :foo]
      ["george" :needs :foo]
      ["sally"  :needs :bar]]
    '[[(needs [?name] ?need) [?name :needs ?need]]] "george")
;; => #{[:foo :bar]} (incorrect)

It may be that the required binding version is always evaluating to true.

rjsheperd avatar Dec 15 '22 16:12 rjsheperd

I don’t think we support this. There’s some work in the parser but it’s not used in current query impl. There are no tests on this either

tonsky avatar Dec 15 '22 22:12 tonsky