On Wednesday, 7 September 2016 at 21:25:30 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
Consider a potential use case. You have an existing data frame
and you want to add a column of data to it that has a different
type than the existing frame. I imagine the function call would
look something like:
auto newFrame = oldFrame.addCol(newData);
Yes, but from a usability point of view this would be very poor -
forcing the user to create a new variable each time they modified
a table. I am aware that databases do this but it is hidden away.
... I only wonder if you would lose performance if wanted
something fully dynamic. A static approach is a good starting
place.
Yes you would, which is why I see the hyper-meta route as being
the potential solution to this issue.
