This is worse than a useless comment. It is downright harmful to getting people to use KDB. Maybe you should explain it to people?

For those reading:

parse is a function that takes a string and returns the parse tree and -3! (gotta love APL) is execute that takes a tree and turns it back into a string.

The parsed syntax it spits out allows you to compose pieces of queries or modify them (there are easier ways such as queries return tables that can always be in inputs to other queries).

Maybe the author would like to add more context?

> This is worse than a useless comment.

Oh no, please don't attack others like this in comments here. Even if you clearly mean well (which I'd say is the case here), it can only cause harm.

geocar's comments are consistently excellent (including for explaining the niceties of kdb and array languages to the community) and having fewer of them would make this place worse. Not everything needs to be spelled out, and besides, sometimes there just isn't time to do so. It can be a lot more work!

As a long time K evangelist (before KDB 2 even) I understand that but this post just played into all the bad stereotypes of KDB+ being jibberish and line noise. Even for somebody veered K it took me a minute to figure out -3!. He isn't [email protected] posting to the K mailing list.

I did vote the comment up before responding to him as KDB, but I'm not sure why really.