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How should DataFrame rows be represented? #9660

Open psahabu opened 6 years ago

psahabu commented 6 years ago

user story

As a Chapel Programmer, I want to inspect and iterate over rows of a DataFrame because that is a natural way to survey a dataset.

known problems

Variable length and variable type.
- Arrays are variable length, but only have a single type.
- Could put each datatype in a wrapper, creating a new ADT. (Bag?)
- Tuples are variable type, but fixed length.
- Would need a variable length tuple type, which seems adventurous.

questions

[ ] does this require a whole new ADT?
- [ ] if so, what ADT is it and what is its interface?
- [ ] if not, how will the user access a row?

psahabu commented 6 years ago

This may be of interest to you, @ben-albrecht.