https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70806
Robinson Tryon (qubit) <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|UNCONFIRMED |NEW Ever confirmed|0 |1 --- Comment #9 from Robinson Tryon (qubit) <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Winfried Donkers from comment #8) > (In reply to Robinson Tryon (qubit) from comment #6) > > My conclusion after a quick look in the code base is that the code > explicitly allows the absence of the field argument, as long as the criteria > argument produces valid results (DCOUNT as well as DCOUNTA). > > The ODF1.2 standard does not mark any argument optional. > > One could wonder if this is a violation of the standard or functionality > that is more than required by the standard. We have more functions in Calc > that offer more functionality than is required by the standard. So strictly speaking, it sounds like the code disagrees with the standard. > The code has not been changed since the start of LibreOffice, the last > change to the DCOUNT/DCOUNTA code is from March 2010. > > I would suggest to change the (help) documentation to reflect its actual > functionality, which IMHO is more user friendly than strict coherence to the > standard. But then, I'm only a developer ;-) Fair enough. That solution seems reasonable to me, especially if we were to make a note of our deviation from the standard the way that we do with extensions to ODF: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/ODF_Implementer_Notes/List_of_LibreOffice_ODF_Extensions In any case, it seems clear that there's some real work to be done here (Documentation, development, or etc..), so Status -> NEW. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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