SurrealQL: Revised Control Flow RFC #2
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This PR introduces the "SurrealQL: Revised Control Flow" RFC.
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RFC Summary
The current state of control flow in SurrealQL is quite convoluted.
Complex queries are subject to excessive nesting, transactions are subject to leaking phantom states, and transactions cannot be nested.
This RFC proposes changes to SurrealQL to improve usability in complex queries while still maintaining flexibility to write simple queries:
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statements break execution.RETURN
semantics more consistent.Initial Issue