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Re:Coda, a “next-generation spreadsheet” – from rows and col... by masklinn on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @07:46AM (#15549249)
> I discussed this in this same thread. If your formulas are using values from from other cells, it makes sense to name them explicitly.

Surely if you're not "using values from other cells" you don't need cell references at all, and then what do you care about A1 versus R1C1?

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Re:Coda, a “next-generation spreadsheet” – from rows and col... by kamaal on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @11:17PM (#15556107)
If you are building a non-trivial application you will end up using value generated in one cell, in another.

Its exactly like programming. A lot of state is stored in intermediate variables.

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