On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 8:56 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <and...@pitonyak.org> 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 compatibility mode can be use to deal with other discrepancies between the standards than just that power() corner case. 2/ if an implementation does not know about 'alternate' form they would not be able to represent the value _at all_ vs a compatibility mode that still use the underlying standardized function. iow a compat mode only impact the execution in one's environment and does not create random problem by polluting the document with 'extensions' that have no chances what-so-ever to be accepted in the standard. > This has the > advantage that it can be turned on and off at will so that Calc will simply > behave that way. It also allows other functions to be changed to check the > flag and behave accordingly. This also feels like a larger initial change > and would require far more buy-in from the community to implement. Yep that is a problem for purely academic problems that do not have any actual use-case. I think there are many more interop problems with much more visible and real-life effect that would be a better use of one's time. Norbert _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
