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

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

Rob Hubbard wrote:
> Perhaps there's some argument for the user getting some indication (a
> warning?) that Q "fall back" functions are being used.

That's not really a viable solution, as having fallback equations to
handle special cases of an operation whose core is defined as an
external is perfectly legitimate. The only way to make that work would
be to have some kind of "not supposed to be extended" markup in extern
declarations, which goes against Q's philosophy to allow extensions
a.k.a. overloading of any operation, even the builtins.

Albert

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