On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 4:20 AM, Torokhov Sergey <torokhov-...@yandex.ru> wrote: > There is a some strange behaviour in "OpenOffice Calc" (and in Microsoft > Office too). Did it was made in OpenOIffice for compability with MSO?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_operations#Exceptions_to_the_standard The behavior or OpenOffice and MSO and C in general in computing, is due to the way 'parsing' works, which in computing _must_ be un-ambiguous. There is a 'gramatical distinction between '- the binary operator as in a - b , which is (operator -)(a,b) and the unary operator - as in -a. The later is treated with a higher priority so that expression like a * -b can be parsed properly. (other wise it would be treated as a * (0 implicit) - b => -b instead of -ab Norbert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
