malloydata / malloy

Malloy is an experimental language for describing data relationships and transformations.
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Preliminary compound datatype support #1991

Open mtoy-googly-moogly opened 4 weeks ago

mtoy-googly-moogly commented 4 weeks ago

All that refactoring leads to this ... arrays and records working in more places. Using the word "compound" data for this, saving the word "composite" for cube-like sources.

The WN for this is https://github.com/malloydata/whatsnext/blob/main/wns/WN-0015-arrays-and-records/WN-0015.md but this is an MVP level first step. The MVP is based on avoiding some of the most common reasons Meta users are having to drop into SQL when working with compound data