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Allow disjoint types in type labels #232

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Problem to Solve

We can easily implement an extension to TypeQL - a union/disjunction of types, as an alternative to a single type label. This would make a single TypeQL query expressive without having to resort to disjunctions or separate queries.

Current Workaround

To query for instances of two types, we must do for example:
match $x isa $t; { $t type person;} or { $t type house;};
or run two separate queries.

Proposed Solution

We could instead write match $x isa person|house;, which allows lumping two possibly disjoint types into the Label for the isa.

This should work for anything in the query that contains a Label constraint, and can be directly implemented by extending the grammar and the parsed Constraint to support a set of label strings.

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