Hi all

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Michael Brand
<michael.ch.brand@gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
>    A nice solution for variant 2 would be if
>    @2$3..@2$7 = remote(A, @>>$$#) :: @3$3..@3$7 = remote(B, @>>$$#)
>    could be simplified to
>    @2$3..@3$7 = remote($8, @>>$$#)
> [...]

Because I need the above indirection of remote references I
implemented it a few days ago, see the attached patches. Comments are
welcome, otherwise I will push the changes to the Org repo in a few
days.

This is the use case that is checked in the Emacs Regression Test
test-org-table/remote-reference-indirect in
testing/lisp/test-org-table.el:

#+NAME: 2012
| amount |
|--------|
|      1 |
|      2 |
|--------|
|      3 |
#+TBLFM: @>$1 = vsum(@I..@II)

#+NAME: 2013
| amount |
|--------|
|      4 |
|      8 |
|--------|
|     12 |
#+TBLFM: @>$1 = vsum(@I..@II)

#+NAME: summary
|  year | amount |
|-------+--------|
|  2012 |      3 |
|  2013 |     12 |
|-------+--------|
| total |     15 |
#+TBLFM: @<<$2..@>>$2 = remote($<, @>$1) :: @>$2 = vsum(@I..@II)

Michael