Re: [q-lang-users] Proposal for two minor rearrangements

[John C. <co...@cc...>]

Albert Graef scripsit:

> > 2) Move the Q functions that are overridden by clib functions (documented
> > in 12.20) into the examples.  Currently they are loaded but then never used.
> 
> Hmm, these functions are there so that the library doesn't break if you
> want/need to remove clib from the prelude. That should still be
> possible, although I haven't checked it for a while. So I'd rather keep
> them where they are. Any specific reason why you want them removed,
> other than tidyness?
> 

I think it better for the code to break than to suddenly run 20 or 200
times slower because you excluded clib for some reason.  After all,
code will break if you exclude other standard modules, too.

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