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[Gozala]

We had various sketches and discussions around how to support some notation. To be honest I am not sure we need dedicated syntax because [] in the selector effectively gives you that.

On the other hand I also argue in #5 that jq is little ambiguous there and perhaps it would make more sense to do something like this instead

{
  "mail": [
    { "to": ["[email protected]"], "message": "hello" },
    { "to": ["[email protected]"], "message": "hello" }
   ]
}

[
  [".mail", "?", "?mail"],
  ["in", "?message", "?mail"]
]

Which is same as this (with a current selector syntax

[
  [".mail", "?", "?mail"],
  [".[]", "?mail", "?message"]
]

[expede]

Defaulting to universal quantification has been universally (ha!) preferred 👍

@QuinnWilton had a good phrasing for why:

In database queries, you want to filter out all counterexamples. In validation, you want to know that there are no counterexamples
[Paraphrased]

[expede]

When asked about which was preferred:

["some", ".foo.bar.[]", "?x"]
[">", "?x", 0]

["in", ".foo.bar.[]", "?x"]
[">", "?x", 0]

["any", ".foo.bar.[]", "?x"]
[">", "?x", 0]

["exists", ".foo.bar.[]", "?x"]
[">", "?x", 0]

some was the favourite by strong preference. It makes an analogy to JS's .some() function, plus in logic you say "there exists some x where ...", so it works for that crowd, too