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Description
Problem to Solve
Corrently, when a user attempts to, e.g., match all attributes a specific type may own, they are greeted with a TypeQL error:
test::data::read> match person owns $n;
[TQL03] TypeQL Error: There is a syntax error at line 1:
match person owns $n;
^
no viable alternative at input 'match person owns $n;'
This is because all statements in a match query must currently start with a variable.
Current Workaround
Currently the user would have to introduce a variable binding for the type and either filter it out at the end of the query, or accept an extraneous concept in each answer.
match
$t type person;
$t owns $att;
get $att;
Proposed Solution
We could treat person owns $n;
as a valid pattern which decomposes into $_0 type person; $_0 owns $n;
.
Note that there is no danger in this allowing trivial queries like person owns name;
(which would either be redundant or immediately unsatisfiable depending on the schema) because of the requirement that each statement contain a named variable.