On Thu, 2013-02-21 at 21:50 -0600, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: > The issue is purely academic, but if it _has_ to be resolved then yes > a compatibility mode has a much better value that creating an > 'alternate' function.
True - though clearly there is some residual benefit in importing ODF files with this sort of function in them - luckily there is a ~zero deployed-base of that so far. As a general yard-stick, we take function compatibility with Excel extremely seriously - it is clearly imperative to our users to have confidence that their spreadsheets continue to work as they move to the world of ODF implementations. Having said that - when it comes to corner-cases we have much bigger problems in this area than this issue. One example would be the absence of a true 'boolean' type in our core; such that when you run the gnumeric test sheet here: http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnumeric/plain/samples/excel/operator.xls you can ponder at length whether: '=TRUE() > "Liz"' should be true or false for example ;-) So - IMHO there is little value at all in further discussion on this topic, and backwards-compatibility with ODF + numeric sanity trumps the corner-case at least until we have a much more consistent set of corner-case solutions. But of course, I would defer to the calc team; and as Tor and Norbert says - -strongly- discourage an endless bike-shed on this from those outside the set of people who have already contributed code to calc. All the best :-) Michael. -- michael.me...@suse.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice