[TINKERPOP-2663] Support Vertex references in grammar

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Done
• Affects Version/s: 3.5.1
• Fix Version/s: 3.6.0
• Component/s: language
• Assignee: Stephen Mallette
• Reporter: Stephen Mallette
• Created: 09/Dec/21 14:34
• Updated: 27/Dec/21 21:00
• Resolved: 27/Dec/21 21:00

Description

With Java (and other variants) you can create an Element easy enough - ReferenceVertex and the like have easy to use constructors. gremlin-language could be made more consistent with such syntax:

g.addE('knows).from(Vertex(1)).to(Vertex(2))