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Errors of 2023-01

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You can’t create a new table with the same name as an existing
query or item in the model.

The “New Table” button creates a new table named “Table”

This means if you create a query named “Table”, the UI cannot
create any new tables. It’s before the rename step.

I discovered this also includes the names of disable queries.
At first I thought It was a cache—issue, but it’s not.

This is actually a good “bug”.
Which is better than if the opposite was true — letting you
create tables and expressions with ambiguous identifiers.

AI using PowerShellAI

Powershell /w the module PowerShellAI
# the original version that didn't parse 
# because ',' made number endings ambiguous
'1,000,2,000,3,000,0,000,1,000,2,000,3,000,0,000' -split '\,'
| Join-String -sep ' ' -SingleQuote
| Label 'original' -Before 1

'1000', '2000', '3000', '0', '1000', '2000', '3000'
| Join-String -sep ' ' { '{0:n0}' -f @( $_ -as 'int' ) } -SingleQuote
| Label 'should be' -Before 1 -After 1
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$result ??= @{}
( $result.Steps1 ??= ai '# first 100 numbers modulous 4, multiplied by a factor of 1e6' )
| renderNice | Label 'Step1' -bef 1
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label 'step3' -after 1 'This time it''s parsable, but, the numbers are not the same different.'
$result.Steps3 -split ',' -replace "'", '' | renderNice
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