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Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell

278 points · 196 comments · luispa

  1. lordnacho · · focus · HN ↗
    Users might see it as a good thing to have yet another feature, but this sort of type-softness is why Excel is bad. In general having every feature is a bad thing, you need constraints to design things, to have idioms.

    Making everything flexible is what allows you to make spaghetti that nobody understands.

    1. qubex · · focus · HN ↗
      I shall embark upon a quest, and the quest’s object shall be thus: to define multiple lambdas within a list, and thereupon, to make cells downstream depend upon the lamda’s, and to make them in turn become lists or values, and so on, until the whole thing breaks.
      1. shakna · · focus · HN ↗
        If you've got five minutes, you'll be able to crash their Python integration. Probably without trying to do so.
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