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1. oniony · 1790375997 · focus · HN ↗

   Weird, because I remember a job where we had arrays in Excel cells back in 2008.

   1. hyperlinerapp · 1790378083 · focus · HN ↗

      These arrays are IN A SINGLE CELL

      1. oniony · 1790591438 · focus · HN ↗

         So were the 2008 ones.
   2. tomrod · 1790379188 · focus · HN ↗

      You could call a named range or ctrl+shift+enter to run an array command. You couldn't put a defined array in a single cell, it would read at text.
   3. agar · 1790386716 · focus · HN ↗

      Excel arrays are difficult to work with, exceedingly slow, and didn't have some basic formula support.

      This looks like a very sane implementation, addresses some issues with traditional arrays (while extending them nicely) and implements those much-needed formulas.

      1. NetMageSCW · 1790451386 · focus · HN ↗

         That should be were difficult to work with - that changed drastically with a new calculation engine. This just makes arrays more of a first class cell type.

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