kdb+/q - Converting a CSV String into a Table

I often find myself wanting to create quick in-memory tables in q for testing purposes. The usual way to create a table is by specifying lists of column names and values, or flipping a dictionary, as shown below:

([] name:`Alice`Bob`Charles;age:20 30 40;city:`London`Paris`Athens)

// or, using a dictionary:

flip `name`age`city!(`Alice`Bob`Charles;20 30 40;`London`Paris`Athens)

As you can see, it's quite difficult to visualise the table being created using this approach. That's why I sometimes prefer to create a table from a multi-line CSV string instead, using the 0: operator, as shown below:

("SIS";enlist",") 0:
"name,age,city
Alice,20,London
Bob,30,Paris
Charles,40,Athens
"

name    age city
------------------
Alice   20  London
Bob     30  Paris
Charles 40  Athens

Note that you can also load from a CSV file:

("SIS";enlist",") 0: `$"/path/to/file.csv"

Related post:
kdb+/q - Reading and Writing a CSV File

Java 20: Record Patterns in For Loops

Previously, I wrote about "Record Patterns" introduced in Java 19, that allow you to "deconstruct" records and access their components directly.

In Java 20 (released a couple of weeks ago!), record patterns have been enhanced so that they can also be used in for loops.

Here is an example that uses a nested record pattern in a for loop to print out a list of records:

record Author(String firstName, String lastName) {}
record Book(String title, Author author, double price) {}

static void printBooks(List<Book> books) {
  for (Book(var title, Author(var firstName, var lastName), var price): books) {
    System.out.printf("%s by %s %s for %.2f\n", title, firstName, lastName, price);
  }
}

Related post:
Java 19: Record Patterns