Bringing "dynamic array" to ODF

[Kohei Yoshida]

Hi Regina,

On 8/24/24 10:18, Regina Henschel wrote:
>
> What do you think?

Just my not-so-useful 2 cents.

It is my understanding that this dynamic array feature is not based on a 
static set of functions that support the feature (such as SORT), but it 
can be retrofitted to an existing function such as MMULT which 
traditionally didn't support dynamic output range... (?)

If that is the case, specifying the flag per cell makes sense to me.  I 
believe, based on your analysis, Excel uses a similar flag stored in 
cells to indicate the presence of the feature i.e. "cm".  The attribute 
you are proposing "table:matrix-is-dynamic" is meant to be mapped to 
this flag, so it looks fine to me.

If I were to suggest one thing, maybe calling the attribute 
"table:dynamic" would make the "dynamic" token itself reusable in other 
contexts.  If we call it "matrix-is-dynamic", that token itself is 
pretty much usable only in matrix related features.  if the attribute is 
just called "dynamic", it may be usable in other things such as 
database-ranges, etc.  In fact, there is already a token named 
"dynamic". Maybe just reuse this token?  I don't feel too strongly about 
this, BTW.

Whatever it is worth...

Kohei