Jody Goldberg wrote:
The time varying nature of MS Excel does have the potential for problems in the future. However, Microsoft is even more strongly bound by the chains of backwards compatibility than we are. I suspect that the differences will be small, and well documented. When they are discovered or occur there is nothing that would preclude updating the rev of the standard. Ideally OpenDoc, or an xml namespace could be used to which revision of open-formula was being used.
But even the description of a single version's behavior is unlikely to be 100% accurate. If OpenFormula is supposed to specify something, something like a standard even, such a discrepancy with Excel's behavior wouldn't invalidate it. You'd have to choose between supporting the specified formulas, or Excel interoperability (much like our requirement to handle our own old documents, but added on top of it).
A mere description, on the other hand, could just be determined as wrong and thus be corrected right away.
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