There's no compelling reason not to do this. We just never got around to it.
Alan. On Feb 13, 2012, at 4:02 PM, Jonathan Coveney wrote: > Right now, you can do b = DISTINCT (foreach a generate field); but not b = > DISTINCT a.field; > > I could extend the parser such that the latter is just sugar for the > former, but I'm curious why this isn't supported?
