verbose.q
- Dominant language
- q
- Stars
- 53
- Forks
- 26
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Description
## 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.
Contributor guide
Research direction
The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by determining which q operators and overloads the proposed wrapper would cover, then define the error-message and state-mutation behavior that would count as complete.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- data
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100