Add in-place cube operation switch

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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
python
Domain
data

Research direction

Start by reading the discussion linked from issue #6590, especially the conclusion about in-place operations and the global IN_PLACE switch. No source file or test entry point is named in the issue. Done means implementing the agreed switch behavior consistently, with tests covering its effect on in-place operations.

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Description

Release: Major Type: User Experience

📰 Custom Issue

The discussion linked here has a lot of back and forth over what we want to do with in-place operations.

The conclusion of which, and after discussion as part of the review of the Iris UX, was to add a global switch IN_PLACE.

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