On 22/07/2023 14:25, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
Max Nikulin writes:
Perhaps git blame for the manual may give some hints. If the change is
really old then org.texi (removed at certain moment) should be inspected
as well.
This has been added very, very long time ago. org-table has undergone
through major transformations since that time.
I cannot find anything blocking the proposed change.
I have not found anything valuable as well. So the only conflict is
named cell vs. named column.
The comment in the code was added in
d85ddfba0 2015-11-26 22:41:14 +0100 Nicolas Goaziou: org-table: Fix
c651e150cc8fb230fca99dfff27caedfddced8ff
in response to
https://list.orgmode.org/20151126195059.gc13...@scotty.home/T/#u
that was a fix for
c651e150c 2015-11-12 23:12:18 +0100 Nicolas Goaziou: org-table: Fix
`org-table-get-range' with column formulas
https://list.orgmode.org/cakzohg+2eu474+rcazkwjyk2vcj1p-9zvbykmqwdhta8waa...@mail.gmail.com/T/#u
I am not familiar with table code enough to track earlier changes.
There are were experiments with last row references as $LR12
dadc9a1af 2008-12-19 18:28:58 +0100 Carsten Dominik: Tables: Implement
last-row references.
later replaced by @>
https://list.orgmode.org/a8bc38be-fad6-4834-acd9-8c0d372b4...@gmail.com/T/#u
Carsten Dominik. Re: Table rows and ranges as LHS of formulas. Wed, 2
Mar 2011 23:57:32 +0100
3dd474575 2011-03-08 14:49:53 +0100 Carsten Dominik: Tables: Make @<
and $< point to row/column 1 in a stable way
Note to the manual was added by
6761dcbbd 2009-02-12 07:12:38 +0100 Carsten Dominik: Minor fixes
The following commit
8237c9ae6 2011-03-01 09:05:56 +0100 Carsten Dominik: Implement table
formulas that apply to field ranges, fix minor issues
added support of @L last row reference, $LR12 is mentioned as backward
compatible way to specify a last row column.
So names after $ were used in the past, but only named fields are
currently supported, so it is not serious reason to disallow column names.
