On 13/02/2013 Rob Weir wrote:
This lead to a series of behaviors which were specified to be "implementation-defined", or in some case "locale-defined" or "unspecified". These are subtly different, and express nuances common in standards, what we refer to as "dimensions of variability".
And where does OpenOffice document its choices? In OpenDocument-v1.2-cd05-part2 2.3 I read: "Applications should document all implementation-defined and variances from this standard in a manner that the application users can obtain the information (e.g., in the application help for the relevant function)."
If we have nothing, starting a wiki page seems a better option than integrating the application help right now.
If we ever do go to a warning mode in Calc, where users are warned about potential calculation issues, these would probably be ones that we would check for.
This is not going to happen soon, but by 4.0, especially if we want to advertise the better ODF compliance we'll have by then, our implementation-defined behavior should be documented.
Regards, Andrea.
