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# thinking-together
c
Make sure to read the "thoughts tacked on at the end"
i

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(^ That was shared separately at the top level, but I moved it here so that we don't bifurcate the discussion about this project)
g
this feels like it was designed by god to please me—spreadsheets, stack languages, visual programming
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thank you very much for this
k
Super super interesting. Couple of design decisions don't make sense yet. Like, why is there both an inspector and the ability to split a definition across a row? How do definitions take args? Just through the same row/stack? That means you can't define a function spanning cells that takes an arg? The 
!
operator is weird. Just default to execution everywhere, and use 
{}
everywhere to defer execution. Anyways. This is interesting enough to get me to break out my twitter.
One thing I'm appreciating more as I think about it: names for intermediate states, that can be used in future evaluations. See the definition of cell A3 at the start.
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It's weird that you can push multiple things on the stack in a single cell, but the 'value' displayed is just the top.
w
@Garth Goldwater just what I was thinking. Avi how I have missed you. (I see a sepia toned DabbleDB.)
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What if instead of a shared cell sensitive formula box, each cell showed its formula and its value?
k
@wtaysom Yeah, that was basically what I was exploring in my screencast further down this channel (https://futureofcoding.slack.com/archives/C5T9GPWFL/p1592379958360900). But my working hypothesis is that my attempts to do so are misguided and almost certain to kill what makes spreadsheets special.
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