https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170743

--- Comment #8 from clear <[email protected]> ---
A discussion about documentation is off topic in the context of this bug
report. I won't be replying again. 

OpenDocument 
1) counsels "The definitions of specific ... functions ... stipulate any
particular limitations there are on forms of references"
2) defines SUMIF as accepting ReferenceList|References
3) defines SUMIFS as accepting (only) References

DocumentFoundation
1) defines SUMIF as "<condition> may utilize the reference concatenation
operator"
2) defines SUMIFS as "may not utilize the reference concatenation operator"

In the pages:

https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/scalc/01/func_sumif.html
https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/scalc/01/func_sumifs.html

The authors mention these restrictions on Named Ranges for SUMIF, but do not
for SUMIFS.

Granted that documentation is a popularization of the science, so it is
entitled to some leeway, but the SUMIFS page needs some polishing to more
accurately reflect the breakable aspects (restrictions) given in the technical
definitions.

Why SUMIFS can't handle ReferenceLists? I don't know. It seems all the code
needs to do is loop through the areas as it does with functions. (I'm not
asking for an explanation)

Anyway, my apologies for creating a bug report about code when the code
actually works as detailed in the more technical manuals.

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