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  1. OMG Issue

DMN14 — need set operations and equality in FEEL

  • Key: DMN14-39
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Oracle ( Gary Hallmark)
  • Summary:

    some notes toward a proper description:
    FEEL has ordered lists and some set builtins, e.g. distinct values and union. Lacks intersection and equality.

    [1,2] in (1,2,[1,2], 3) is true

    intersect([1,2,3], [3,1,4]) = [1,3]

    set equals([1,1,3], [3,1]) is true
    probably - distinct values([1,1,3]) = distinct values([3,1])
    maybe change to set([1,1,3]) = set([3,1])
    (set needs to both remove dups and return elements in canonical order)
    what is canonical order [null, 0, {}, []]?
    [1,3] = [3,1] is false

    Another option is to add sets to FEEL semantic domain (along with lists, numbers, contexts, ...). And need syntax.

    simpler and more biz friendly proposal - add 'contains any' and 'contains all' as boolean infix operators taking 2 lists as LHS and RHS. And allow these to be added to unary tests w/o a '?'. E.g. 1,2,3 , in (1,2,3) , contains any (1,2,3), contains all (1,2,3). First 2 are what we have now (2nd allowed for symmetry). Last 2 assume input expr is a list (set).

    if we just add set oriented builtins, but no friendlier syntax, this may not solve the biz problem of allowing DTs to process sets in a user friendly way. Too many ()s and ?s

  • Reported: DMN 1.1 — Thu, 11 Aug 2016 15:35 GMT
  • Disposition: Deferred — DMN 1.4
  • Disposition Summary:

    Defer to DMN 1.5

    Defer to DMN 1.5

  • Updated: Thu, 31 Mar 2022 19:30 GMT