Add support for Prepend and Append operators #2264
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There are many cases in which empty sequences may cause undesired behavior due to downstream operator constraints enforcing a minimum of one value for successful processing (e.g. see #1617). Similarly, it can also be useful to enforce that a sequence always ends with a specific value, no matter when it terminates.
For both of these cases the
PrependandAppendoperators can be very convenient. Although equivalent behavior may be obtained usingConcatand similar observable combinators, the convenience ofPrependandAppendlays in the fact that the desired value can be specified inline with the sequence itself, without requiring merging of external sequences.The current limitation is that any such appended or prepended values must be XML serializable as they will be stored together with the workflow. This is the same limitation present in other binary operators such as
Add,Subtract, etc. when used by themselves.Fixes #657
Closes #1617