Leo, get of the soapbox and switch to decaf.
You are confusing a file format -- where you could write all expressions in Morse encoded RPN if you liked -- with how the GUI shows and interprets expressions. As for what the GUI should do with -2^2, the situation is that (1) it does a well- defined thing, (2) you do not like it, (3) we all understood that, (4) it disagrees with what most mathematicians do, (5) it agrees with what computer scientists have been doing for ages, and finally (6) your style is close to getting you on everyone's "ignore" list. It's a definition. It cannot be "right" or "wrong", but it can be "unusual", "surprising", "inconvenient", and a number of other things. It's in the same class as "is 1 a prime?" and "what is the value of 0^0?" Different fields need different definitions and that is fine. Just spell it out. Morten _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
