Re: Implementing alternate "compatibility" functions (such as 0^0 = ERROR)

2013-02-22 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 02/22/2013 04:51 AM, Michael Meeks wrote: 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

Re: Implementing alternate "compatibility" functions (such as 0^0 = ERROR)

2013-02-22 Thread Xisco FaulĂ­
I'm sorry, I didn't know about that discussion. You're right, it's pointless to do the same here, so it's better just to stop the discussion. Please accept my apologies Xisco 2013/2/22 Tor Lillqvist > > I've seen this was implemented in Apache Openoffice recently. Probably we > > can just merg

Re: Implementing alternate "compatibility" functions (such as 0^0 = ERROR)

2013-02-22 Thread Michael Meeks
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

Re: Implementing alternate "compatibility" functions (such as 0^0 = ERROR)

2013-02-22 Thread Tor Lillqvist
> I've seen this was implemented in Apache Openoffice recently. Probably we > can just merge it into Libreoffice. And you did not notice the flood of useless discussion that ensued on the AOO list, with one contributor (partially) leaving AOO? PLEASE STOP THIS DISCUSSION NOW! ;) --tml __

Implementing alternate "compatibility" functions (such as 0^0 = ERROR)

2013-02-22 Thread Xisco FaulĂ­
Hello, I've seen this was implemented in Apache Openoffice recently. Probably we can just merge it into Libreoffice. Commit: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?h=aoo/trunk&id=908088f614cda46d9c996e40579611df27276394 Regards, Xisco ___

Re: Implementing alternate "compatibility" functions (such as 0^0 = ERROR)

2013-02-21 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 8:56 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: > > The alternate suggestion was to add a "compatibility mode". 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. 1/ a compatibil

Implementing alternate "compatibility" functions (such as 0^0 = ERROR)

2013-02-21 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
I was recently involved in a conversation related Calc and Excel compatibility. At issue is the fact that LO returns POWER(0,0) = 1 and Excel returns an error. I have seen two primary means of dealing with this suggested. The first is to create a compatibility function for POWER(x,y) to matc