Re: Why creating a table from a tale results in a list of dictionaries?

[cillianreilly]

First, remember that a table itself is just a list of dictionaries.

q)0N!/:tab; 
`col1`col2!(`a;1) 
`col1`col2!(`b;2) 
`col1`col2!(`c;3)

So, when you tabulate a table, each entry in the original table (a dictionary) just becomes an entry in the new table column:

q)([]tab) 
tab 
----------------- 
`col1`col2!(`a;1) 
`col1`col2!(`b;2) 
`col1`col2!(`c;3) 

q)type ([]tab) 
98h 

q)type each tab 
99 99 99h 

q)type each([]tab) 
99 99 99h