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Subject: Re: [office-formula] Semantics
Hi robert_weir, On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 15:52:17 -0500, robert_weir@us.ibm.com wrote: > OK. So someone who has a process that takes a table of conversion factors > from the web and pastes these into a spreadsheet and then uses automatic > string->number conversions to do a calculation would create a spreadsheet > which would work in one locale, but would break in another. Exactly. > This makes me think that we shouldn't spend to much time on this area. > Specify how it works today in OO (or Excel or whatever) and immediately > deprecate this feature in the grammar. I'm more than fine with that. I just don't know if and how a specification should say "hey, currently it may work like this, but don't use it". > I think we want to be promoting a > file format which encourages and supports the creation of formulas which > are invariant under locale changes. Yes, please :-) > Automatic string conversions considered dangerous. They are the GOTO > statements of spreadsheets. Hey, that's a good one :-) May I cite it in my .sig? > We should probably make a whole list of stuff which we'll need to > define for legacy application compatibility, but which we'll want to > immediately deprecate. If we do so we may also need to define the transition from legacy to new behavior/functionality/whatever. This can be hard and time consuming as it probably will have to be done on a case-by-case basis. Eike
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