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verbose.q #86

Open alvin-c-shih opened 1 year ago

alvin-c-shih commented 1 year ago

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 disambugate the overloads and provide more informative error messages.

rdffy commented 6 days ago

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