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Re:Coda, a “next-generation spreadsheet” – from rows and col... by DonHopkins on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @09:16PM (#15546589)
An important thing about cell references that makes them almost but not quite entirely unlike pointers is that they can be relative, absolute, or mixed.

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Switch-between-rela...

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Re:Coda, a “next-generation spreadsheet” – from rows and col... by pavlov on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @02:17AM (#15547920)
Aren’t named cells/columns a category of their own? They’re not relative nor absolute, but resolved by the name binding that exists at evaluation time.
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