On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 13:21 -0500, Kohei Yoshida wrote: > You just described how complex it is to parse a date input, and that's > exactly my point. :-) And the point I was trying to make with my date > input box idea was to give the user a way to bypass that complex > parsing > process when it's needed (e.g. when the parser parses it incorrectly). > With a date input box, the user input is already known to be a date, > which would reduce the amount of "guessing" the parser needs to > perform.
To be even more clear, with an optional date input box (or something conceptually similar), the user can turn off Calc's date parsing entirely while still having a way to enter a date on rare occasions (if needed). Either that, or introducing a mode switching (date - string - number) that clearly separates each mode. Just brainstorming. :-) Kohei --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
