The language that Gnumeric implements is, by and large, set in stone. We can extend, for example with extra functions, but changing the core language is not in the cards.
Compare this with, say, Gcc deciding to use "%" for percentage and using "mod" for modulo instead. It would be possible. It might arguably lead to more readable programs, interoperability with other compilers would suffer. So the fact that referencing an empty cell gives you a zero is not going away. Formatting 0 as a date isn't going to give you anything you like. Note, though, that we don't produce the same formatting result as Excel if you include the weekday in the format. That is because we don't reproduce Excel's (or maybe Lotus 1-2-3's?) silly 1900-02-29 bug. Morten _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
