Monday, January 7, 2019

Take the company spreadsheet, for example

Comp[any_sheet, they call it.

Most will agree here is something called a company balance sheet, a small spread sheet summary.

Right away I have the args format, there are few choices.  It is typically a double long array starting just after the command word. So, right there, all the snippets, from chart makers, spread sheeters, sqlers,  sort of get what an immediate array of cells on args list would likely, intuitively, be.  In default, most snippets would just dump a small array on args, make it the default standard.  So,
MakeChart label x y; WriteSql mytable x y; Sheet mysheet x y;  // know what to expect

I mean, these forms must exist by the law of minimalization. They appear naturally when we take on the hardware metaphor. Enterprise management often gets by with local symbol translations, hardly needing special syntax. Local symbol tables, the ability of the caller to tag an element with a plain text string. If local symbols are not enough, not, the engine of choice, if not that, a snippet of your own design. .

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