I know those do, and I would expect any application claiming to be a
spreadsheet to have that.
Google spreadsheet actually have an interesting hybrid with its "continue"
function that is automatically inserted to expand array results over a
range of cells.
BR
John
Den 21 apr 2013 10:00 skrev "John Carlson" <[email protected]>:

> Excel is indeed interesting.  Can google docs/libreoffice/OpenOffice do
> something similar?
> On Apr 21, 2013 2:52 AM, "John Nilsson" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I think Excel is interesting in this regard. The common idiom in excel is
>> to employ user triggered code generation by fill formula to adapt the ui to
>> dynamically resized collections.
>> Not exactly automatic, but is it sufficiently trivial to group with or
>> trivial ui operations such as scroll or resize window that might also be
>> needed to not interfere with the display of the dynamic collection?
>> BR
>> John
>> Den 21 apr 2013 07:59 skrev "John Carlson" <[email protected]>:
>>
>>> If you want a more complex use case,  create a loop 10 times around the
>>> collection add loop to insert a calculator into the collection.
>>> On Apr 21, 2013 12:48 AM, "John Carlson" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Here's a semipractical use case: add 1 to the display in each of a
>>>> dynamic collection of calculators (math domain widgets).  What can do this
>>>> as end-user programming?  It's fairly obvious that a textual language can
>>>> do this.  Can any graphical ones?  Can something like lively kernel do this
>>>> by demonstration?  How about excel?  With a dynamic collection?  What will
>>>> work on android jelly bean?  I'm away from my desktop right now.
>>>> On Apr 21, 2013 12:22 AM, "John Carlson" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Looking for systems like this I found app-inventor activity starter on
>>>> my phone.  Has anyone tried this?
>>>> On Apr 21, 2013 12:14 AM, "John Carlson" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I believe the key to this is to create domain widgets.  I am not sure
>>>>> if this needs to be something like etoys, maybe a combination between 
>>>>> forth
>>>>> and etoys.  I believe collections can make for interesting domain widgets.
>>>>> I have only programmed systems with collections of text.  What systems 
>>>>> work
>>>>> on collections of domain widgets?
>>>>> On Apr 21, 2013 12:02 AM, "John Carlson" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Yeah, you're right.  The theory is coming up with a syntax free
>>>>>> language.  Can you?
>>>>>> On Apr 21, 2013 12:00 AM, "David Barbour" <[email protected]>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> How is that a theory? Sounds like a design principle.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 9:42 PM, John Carlson <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Here's my theory: reduce arguing with the compiler to minimum.
>>>>>>>> This means reducing programmers' syntax errors.  Only add syntax to 
>>>>>>>> reduce
>>>>>>>> errors (the famous FORTRAN do loop error).  The syntax that creates 
>>>>>>>> errors
>>>>>>>> should be removed.
>>>>>>>> On Apr 20, 2013 11:18 PM, "John Carlson" <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I think it's better to work from examples, ala JUnit and end-user
>>>>>>>>> programming than come up with a theory that solves nothing.  One can
>>>>>>>>> compare EGGG to GDL in scope and expressiveness.  One interesting 
>>>>>>>>> part of
>>>>>>>>> gaming is arguing about rules.  What computer systems do that?
>>>>>>>>> On Apr 20, 2013 11:09 PM, "John Carlson" <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Practice or practical?  Maybe there's space for practical theory,
>>>>>>>>>> instead of relying on things that don't exist.  Why do we distinguish
>>>>>>>>>> practice from theory?  Seems like a fallacy there.
>>>>>>>>>> On Apr 20, 2013 10:51 PM, "David Barbour" <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> only in practice
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 8:23 PM, John Carlson <
>>>>>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Take my word for it, theory comes down to Monday Night Football
>>>>>>>>>>>> on ESPN.
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Apr 20, 2013 10:13 PM, "John Carlson" <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> I think that concepts in some sense transcend the universe.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Are there more digits in pi than there are atoms  in the 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> universe?  I guess
>>>>>>>>>>>>> we are asking if there are transcendental volumes which are 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> bigger or more
>>>>>>>>>>>>> complex than the universe.  If the universe contains the 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> transcendental as
>>>>>>>>>>>>> symbols then how many transcendental symbols are there?  I think 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> you still
>>>>>>>>>>>>> run into Russell's Paradox.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Apr 20, 2013 9:15 PM, "Simon Forman" <
>>>>>>>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 4/20/13, John Carlson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > Do you need one symbol for the number infinity and another
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> for denoting
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > that a set is inifinite?  Or do you just reason about the
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> size of the set?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > Is there a difference between a set that is countably
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> infinite and one that
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > isn't countable?  I barely know Russell's paradox... you're
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ahead of me.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Well, for what it's worth, quoting from Meguire's 2007
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "Boundary
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Algebra: A Simple Notation for Boolean Algebra and the Truth
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Functors":
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "Let U be the universal set, a,b∈U, and ∅ be the null set.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Then the
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> columns headed by “Sets” show how the algebra of sets and the
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> pa are
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> equivalent.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Table 4-2. The 10 Nontrivial Binary Connectives (Functors).
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Name            Logic  Sets BA
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Alternation      a∨b   a∪b  ab
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Conditional      a→b   a⊆b  (a)b
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Converse         a←b   a⊇b  a(b)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Conjunction      a∧b   a∩b  ((a)(b))
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>                        ___
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> NOR              a↓b   a∪b   (ab)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>                        ___
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sheffer stroke   a|b   a∩b  (a)(b)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Biconditional    a↔b   a⊆b⊆a  (((a)b)(a(b))) -or- ((a)(b))(ab)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (Apologies if the Unicode characters got mangled!)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Check out http://www.markability.net/sets.htm also.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I don't know much about set theory but I think the
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "Universal" set
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> stands for the set of everything, no?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ~Simon
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "The history of mankind for the last four centuries is rather
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> like that of
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> an imprisoned sleeper, stirring clumsily and uneasily while
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the prison that
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> restrains and shelters him catches fire, not waking but
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> incorporating the
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> crackling and warmth of the fire with ancient and incongruous
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> dreams, than
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> like that of a man consciously awake to danger and
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> opportunity."
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> --H. P. Wells, "A Short History of the World"
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