InformaticsMAIL for Visual Studio Code

MAIL (Master Automated Informatics Language) is the rule, query and message shaping language of the LabLink Engine Console and Atellica NexIS informatics. This extension brings MAIL 2.0 to Visual Studio Code, and gives .mail, .mailq and .mailr files their own MAIL icon.

Features

Validation as you type. Every diagnostic comes from the MAIL reference engine, the same engine the LabLink Engine Console uses. Codes follow Appendix C of MAIL: Master Automated Informatics Language (L, S, T, N, C and W codes).

Hover documentation. Hover a function for its signature, null behavior and an example; hover a field for its type and level (patient, specimen, result, message, segment or tunnel).

Completion and signature help. All 197 library functions, every field, reserved and contextual keywords, duration units, and the constants and functions declared in the open file.

Outline and folding. RULE, COUNTER, DEFINE, CONSTANT, TEST, SHAPE, FILTER, ACKNOWLEDGE and ROUTE declarations appear in the Outline view and fold at END.

Snippets. rule, rule-critical, counter, define, constant, shape, filter, route and query.

Commands.

• MAIL: Run tests in this file runs every TEST block against the bundled demonstration data.
• MAIL: Run query on demo data runs the file, or the selection, as a query over 57 synthetic specimens.

Files

.mail for rule sets and scripts, .mailq for queries, .mailr for rule sets. All three use the same language.

Notes

Demonstration data and the Appendix E limits are illustrative. Production limits come from each laboratory's approved policy.

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