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The previous version of k.h was excessively readable.
Several sections could be understood by simply reading the file, without the traditional tooling stack of preprocessing, confusion, reformatting, or the suicidal ideation that the KDB C API invariably engenders among weaker engineers who fail to climb the steep learning curve
This presented a potential risk to KDB's strongest competitive advantages: the cognitive barrier to entry.
Left unaddressed, these issues could have enabled developers to understand parts of the runtime representation more quickly than intended, threatening us KDB developers with excess competition from outsiders.
Solution:
This PR restores the intended level of interpretive effort and backwards compatibility with late 90s compilers by introducing ANSI-C digraphs and trigraphs.
This ensures that:
Impact:
Testing
Confirmed that: