On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 09:53:12AM +0200, Niklas Nebel wrote:
But even the description of a single version's behavior is unlikely to
be 100% accurate. If OpenFormula is supposed to specify something,
something like a standard even, such a discrepancy with Excel's behavior
wouldn't
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 09:52:04PM -0400, Kohei Yoshida wrote:
But speaking in the short-term, what would that affect us with those
existing Calc functions that share the same name as Excel but behave
differently? For instance, there exists the CONVERT function that
work differently from
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 12:19:24PM +0200, Eike Rathke wrote:
Hi dev,
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 23:33:36 +0200, Eike Rathke wrote:
http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/09/192250tid=93
Thanks for the pointer.
And for those who are interested, here is what came to my mind
Jody Goldberg wrote:
What is the goal of an open-formula specification ? I'd assume it is
to improve interoperability between versions and implementors of the
standard. If that is the case then there is already a standard, MS
Excel. Given the complexity and prevalence of it's evaluation
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 08:33:44PM +0200, Niklas Nebel wrote:
Jody Goldberg wrote:
What is the goal of an open-formula specification ? I'd assume it is
to improve interoperability between versions and implementors of the
standard. If that is the case then there is already a standard, MS
Hi Jody,
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 14:04:59 -0400, Jody Goldberg wrote:
What is the goal of an open-formula specification ? I'd assume it is
to improve interoperability between versions and implementors of the
standard.
This is also what I assumed. Which left me even more puzzled why the
Hi Jody, Niklas, and Eike,
On 9/22/05, Jody Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The time varying nature of MS Excel does have the potential for
problems in the future. However, Microsoft is even more strongly
bound by the chains of backwards compatibility than we are. I
suspect that the
Eike Rathke wrote:
Not sure if this is related to this formula standardization issue, but
would such a standardization address the argument separator
inconsistency i.e. ',' vs ';' ?
Note that OpenFormula is about the file format, no the representation in
the UI.
The draft does have a section
Hi M.,
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 20:36:36 +0200, M. Fioretti wrote:
http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/09/192250tid=93
Thanks for the pointer.
Eike
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