Riddle 4: What’s Going On Here?
What’s happening in this snippet, and why is it interesting?
% q
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q)f:{x+1}
q)\d .foo
q.foo)g:{select f a from x}
q.foo)\d .
q).foo.g([]a:1 2 3)
a
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2
3
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posted by Aaron Davies @ 12:46 PM
3 Comments
3 Comments:
qSQL expressions always execute in the top level namespace.
Very close, but not quite right.
internally select gets converted into a functional format.And `a is treated as a constant and points to main namespace.
q)\d .foo
q.foo)x:{a+1}
q.foo)y:{value[`a]+1}
q.foo)a:1
q.foo)\d .
q)a:3
q).foo.x[]
2
q).foo.y[]
4
q)value .foo.x
0x0d81410003
,`x
`symbol$()
`foo`a
"{a+1}"
q)value .foo.y
0x0da033410003
,`x
`symbol$()
,`foo
`a
"{value[`a]+1}"
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