Monday, June 4, 2012

What the Function?!?

q is notorious for its limited debugging features. One prominent aspect of this is the way runtime errors in the interactive shell are handled: you enter the debug shell and are presented with the body of the function that failed and the error that occurred. What’s missing? The name of the function!

So, to fill that gap, I’ve written a function wtf[] which will search the workspace for its argument, returning a fully-qualified name if it finds anything. wtf, along with brief documentation and a couple examples, can now be found in the lib subdirectory of my contrib (a section I hope to expand in the future).

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