RE: [office-formula] OFFICE-2164: EASTERSUNDAY

[robert_weir@us.ibm.com]

"Dennis E. Hamilton" <dennis.hamilton@acm.org> wrote on 10/26/2009 
03:09:25 PM:
> 
> I have some concerns about making a composite function like that.  There
> become versioning issues around additions and around corrections because 
of
> an error in any of them.  I think it would be more useful to have them
> separated, at least into cohesive families.
> 

This is similar to CONVERT and CELL.  I think you naturally end up with 
these whenever you have a potentially open-ended set of variations on the 
same basic function.  You can manage it by guaranteeing that values will 
be added but not removed in future revisions, and that extensions would 
need to be namespaced.

In any case, I just want to point out that this is the kind of thing that 
can cause problems in ISO/IEC, since a delegation can easily feel slighted 
if their holidays are not included.  So making an "adaptable" solution 
would be advised.

-Rob