Better support for in-place operations on tables

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
julia
Domain
data

Research direction

Start by investigating the row and column iteration interfaces mentioned in the issue, especially DataFrameRow and the proposed traits for mutability. Determine which table representations can support in-place mutation and how that should be expressed; done means the interface and expected behavior are defined clearly enough to implement and test.

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Description

Specifically, it'd be nice if I could use some traits to determine whether I can mutate the underlying data during row or column iteration (e.g., mutating values in DataFrameRow).

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