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verbose.q

Open alvin-c-shih opened this issue 3 years ago • 1 comments

Feature Request

Description of Problem:

Although q prides itself in terseness and efficiency, it can come at a price:

  • Highly-overloaded symbolic operators can be beginner-unfriendly (as well as search engine unfriendly).
  • Error messages are ambiguous and require console access to get at the root cause.
  • Some overloads are considered dangerous since they can : mutate state, open sockets, etc.

Potential Solutions:

Offer a standardized "verbose" wrapper around q operators which disambigate the overloads and provide more informative error messages.

alvin-c-shih avatar Feb 13 '23 04:02 alvin-c-shih

Could pykx query syntax and keyword funcs with doc strings in pykx 3.0 be the answer to this?

rdffy avatar Nov 19 '24 11:11 rdffy