alt Hacker NewsLil's readcsv[] takes three arguments: a data string, an optional typecode-string (which can also skip columns with "_"), and an optional delimiter character. First row is always assumed to be headers; I find it easy enough to concatenate on a header row before calling the function if I'm ever dealing with a headerless CSV file.
The typecode-string approach in Lil is very similar to how Q handles it with dyadic 0:.
In this specific example I could do without the typecode-string since arithmetic operators like sum, -, and * will coerce string columns into numbers, but I think this way is cleaner.
I see. Kap tries to be as generic as possible, so assuming that the table has headers doesn't feel right. If the table dont have headers, and the reader assumes it does, then you'll potentially silently lose the first row of data.