Nothing like this exists. It's a really good suggestion though.

As a side note - this is something I would love help with. There are a
number of different ways to do this though, and it would be really helpful
if someone could research the topic a bit an make a suggestion. I come from
a T-SQL background, and there you use
CASE<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181765.aspx>.
C# has the ternary operator. I'm very fond of Scala's match operator. What
is a good fit for Cypher?

Andrés

I rather like that Cypher is very graph focussed, and addresses the domain of the database. If we choose to add in functionality like this, Cypher becomes more and more like a general-purpose programming language. I don't think that's helpful because:

1. We know it's not a good idea to encode business logic in queries..
2. There are lots of good programming languages out there already which can easily handle the return val = "DELHI" ? 5 : 10 case. Note that neither 5 nor 10 are actually about data access and manipulation here, they're domain things.

Even if those features existed in Cypher today, I don't think in good conscience I would use them to develop a  business information system - I think it conflates concerns.

Just my £0.02.

Jim

People put all kinds of business logic in SQL queries.  If cypher is to be the graph equivalent of SQL it needs to be able to handle business logic.  

It needs to.  Will it make cypher less pure? Absolutely, but we have to be pragmatic here.

We should enable people to solve their problems easily and kick ass doing so

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