Re: [office-formula] Let's make "^" left-associative, not right-associative

[robert_weir@us.ibm.com]

"David A. Wheeler" <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>
wrote on 07/16/2006 10:02:41 PM:


> Anyway, the case as you describe won't happen.  Any one application
> better have a consistent mapping, and in practice, in English it'll
generally
> be one-to-one.  But let's go with your example.  In my app,
my "AND"
> maps to OF "AND_SHORT".  Thus, my app will have another
function, e.g.,
> "AND_NOSHORT".  I load in your sheet, and see lots
of AND_NOSHORTs,
> write it back, and you see "AND" as usual.
> 
.
.
.

> 
> > I guess I just haven't bought into the logic of forcing all compliant
ODF 
> > editors to support a new function so a single implementation
can avoid 
> > lining up with the others.
> 
> Huh?  Don't think we're doing that.
> 

So back to my example.  If spreadsheet A has
function AND() in the UI and writes it out as AND_SHORT() to match their
behavior, then aren't we forcing spreadsheet B, which does the "normal"
non-shortcircuit logic, to implement AND_SHORT()?  I don't see how
this is avoided if documents are to be exchanged between A and B?  

-Rob