Re: [sc-dev] Formula Compatibility

2006-01-26 Thread Niklas Nebel
Terry North wrote: I'm not a programmer but I've been using spreadsheets for a long time, including Lotus, which went through a number of changes. I hope that reading this does not take too long, if my suggestion has no merit. Sorry for the late reply. It's good to see some suggestions, instea

Re: [sc-dev] Formula Compatibility

2005-12-22 Thread Terry North
I'm not a programmer but I've been using spreadsheets for a long time, including Lotus, which went through a number of changes. I hope that reading this does not take too long, if my suggestion has no merit. Rather than loading the program with various alternative formula expressions, formula con

Re: [sc-dev] Formula Compatibility

2005-12-22 Thread Niklas Nebel
Jody Goldberg wrote: You've identified 1) Compatibility with other spreadsheets 2) Compatibility with older versions of OOo/SO 3) Avoiding conflicts with future OpenFormula spec There are several things we can do, but they will require us to nail down more detail on (2). Loading an

Re: [sc-dev] Formula Compatibility

2005-12-21 Thread Jody Goldberg
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 12:03:36PM +0100, Niklas Nebel wrote: > Hello everybody, > > There has been some disagreement on how to handle changes that would > improve formula compatibility with other applications, but break > documents created with existing versions of OOo. Compatibility with > ot

[sc-dev] Formula Compatibility

2005-12-15 Thread Niklas Nebel
Hello everybody, There has been some disagreement on how to handle changes that would improve formula compatibility with other applications, but break documents created with existing versions of OOo. Compatibility with others and with older versions are two requirements that both have to be t