VisiData's Limits to Growth

Organically Discovered Consequences of the Design

This is a collection of bugs which are definitely not ideal, but are not worth fixing in the current implementation.

• Columns added with add-column contain cells which are not copy-paste-able
  • Bug was described in issue #413.
  • Columns added with add-column are column-major. They store data in themselves "about" rows. Most things will work pretty well, but efficient copy-pasting happens to rely on a row-major architecture.
• Selecting negative values includes errors and nulls
  • Bug was described in issue #402.
  • Errors (and nulls) need to exist somewhere specific on the number line so that sorting is stable. Artbitrarily, negative infinity was chosen, so that when a user sorts ascending, the errors would come first. Changing this would fix the selection bug, but then sorting would be unstable. This is undesirable.