Should a document format do table arithmetic? #19
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A GEML table can compute a column and a summary row at build time:
This is the only place the format computes anything, and it sits right against
a boundary we wrote ourselves: "tables compute, but aren't a spreadsheet engine."
Keeping it means owning formula semantics forever — precision, error reporting,
locale, and a steady stream of "just one more function". Dropping it means the
numbers get computed somewhere else and pasted in, which is the copy-drift
the format exists to prevent.
The options
compute=/summary=as they are.into the spec, and close the slope.
If you have a document with
compute=in it, say what it computes — that isworth more than any argument here.
(No poll widget on this one — reply with 1, 2 or 3 and, if you have one, the reason. A bare number is a useful answer.)
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