I'm really happy to see CEP-15 getting closer to a final implementation.
I'm going to walk through my reasoning for your proposals wrt trying to
explain this to somebody new.
Looking at all the options, the first thing that comes up for me is the
Cassandra project's complicated relationship with N
I’ll do my best to express with my thinking, as well as how I would explain the
feature to a user.
My mental model for LET statements is that they are simply SELECT statements
where the columns that are selected become variables accessible anywhere in the
scope of the transaction. That is to