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Subject: Re: [office-formula] display position?
Hi Patrick, On Saturday, 2010-01-23 12:41:20 -0500, Patrick Durusau wrote: > Just curious, what is meant by "display position"? > >> 1. >> >> Storing a non-scalar result in a matrix is controlled by a >> few rules. >> >> 1. >> >> If the display position exists in the source data >> use the source. >> >> 2. >> >> If the source data is 1 column wide the display >> position uses the value in the 1st column. This >> applies to >> - scalars '3' >> - singletons '{3}' >> - column vectors '{1|2|3}' >> >> 3. >> >> If the source data is 1 row high all the display >> position uses the value in the 1st row. This applies to >> - scalars '3' >> - singletons '{3}' >> - row vectors '{1;2;3}' >> > It occurs these three times and no where else in the draft. > > I am assuming it is a reference to the existence of a location in a > matrix for the storage of a value that is part of a matrix result but > why call it "display position?" Is there some significance to that? In a spreadsheet, the result of an array/matrix formula is (or may be) spread over several matrix cells. The array elements are displayed in cells, with a position offset corresponding to the offset in the array. If the array to be displayed is a single element or a vector, the element respectively vector is repeated, e.g. a 1 row by 3 columns vector is repeated if the cell matrix displaying it is more than 1 row high. Now, it would be easy to say we are not concerned with spreadsheet displays, but this logic is also applied if a vector is used in a context where a larger matrix is expected (of same width or height as the vector), then the corresponding element of the same column/row is used. We may find another expression than "display position", but what name would satisfy both uses? Eike -- Automatic string conversions considered dangerous. They are the GOTO statements of spreadsheets. --Robert Weir on the OpenDocument formula subcommittee's list.
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