Re: [PATCH] lisp/org-table.el: Allow named columns on lhs

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:

>> 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.
> ...

I followed similar trace.

> 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.

Agree.
Just need to make sure that we document this clearly in the manual.
Some parts of the manual are a ambiguous about column names vs. field
names.

3.5.1 References -> Named references only talks about column names, but
not field named.

3.5.5 Field and range formulas has

‘$NAME=’
     Named field, see *note Advanced features::.

only mentioning filed.

3.5.6 Column formulas says
    The left-hand
    side of a column formula can not be the name of column, it must be the
    numeric column reference or ‘$>’.

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