If you use k a lot, you start to automatically recognize idioms/stanzas; it just becomes automatic to recognize a group of chars. And then it becomes readable. The throwaway nature, in my experience and opinion, comes not from it being unreadable (as many people who never used languages like this seem to think), but rather from the fact that the code you are are changing is so short that thinking it up and typing it in (by combining idioms) is faster than placing your cursor and actually editing existing code. Also you are on a repl or editor that can run code on the cursor, so interactive development even makes that case stronger: before you know it, you have produced a new version of a function without actually even looking at the old one.

For a nice intro, read Nils' excellent book: https://www.t3x.org/klong/book.html it even has an idioms table in the back.

Yeah but there s low value in throwaway, and it's not succint, it's 1-letter. ONE lol, for every imaginable labguage keyword.

For instance to parse a binary encoded dictionary from a table column: -9!'columnName(I remember it because it s the first time I spent a day on something so useless yet so indispensible yet so fucked up). I challenge you to google it.

He likes succint hihihi.