Dear Morten and all, Very interesting discussion, and it leads me to a thought.... Isnt it time to:
* SKIP the LETTER ID of COLUMNS !!! (A,B,C,....XXX) And replace it with numbering (1-k), perhaps with an indicator of some kind (1, 2, 3.... or c1,c2,c3... etc)?. From my end I can see a number of advantages : *more mathematic-like approach to a matrix *easier to create a matrix with a given size *Opens up for bigger matrixes' *Referring to an element (cell) by x(row,column). *Give rows and columns the same "status". *Easier programming (?) I like what you said about 2^31 (ca 2.1x10^10), have that for both rows and columns, and let mem set the limits. That would be very interesting. Personally I have never liked the Letter IDing of columns, that is common in most spreadsheet softwares (MS Excel). Perhaps there is a point to it for more every-day products, but for a more "high-end" software like Gnumerics, I think it’s the wrong choice. OK - some ideas - I wish I could do some programming - so I could be a part of cool things come real, but unfortunately I don’t have that skill. Perhaps other things... Hope my thoughts have contributed with something. Med vänliga hälsningar / With kind regards / Freundliche Grüße, Martin Berntsson _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
