Range constructor in rasql

[Dimitar Misev]

rasql is missing dedicated language feature for dynamically constructing multi-channel MDDs. A range constructor expression in WCPS, e.g.

for c in (COV)
return
 {
  red: c.red;
  green: c.green;
  blue: c.blue
 }

is translated to the below in rasql:

select
  c.red * {1c,0c,0c} +
  c.green * {0c,1c,0c} +
  c.blue * {0c,0c,1c}
from COV as c

which is not too intuitive and potentially slower than a dedicated solution like

select
  { c.red, c.green, c.blue }
from COV as c

The only problem with the above is that there is a clash, as the same construct would be used to also represent struct constants like {1c,0c,0c,..}. Parsing shouldn't be a problem because in one case we have a list of MDD expressions while in the other it's a list of numbers, but that the same construct leads to different results (MDD vs. constant) based on the context may be confusing?

[Bidesh Thapaliya]

patch submitted.

[Dimitar Misev]

Besides mdds as arguments, the range constructor should allow also scalars, which internally are expanded to mdds (equivalent to the first mdd in spatial domain.

E.g.

select { rgb.red, rgb.blue, 5c } from rgb

5c indicates that the third band of the result should be set to all 5.

[Dimitar Misev]

The range constructor seems to have a serious memory leak, especially with the SWITCH statement.