[OASIS Issue Tracker] Commented: (OFFICE-2326) Treat all typesequally, i.e., no pseudotypes

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David Wheeler  commented on OFFICE-2326:
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No, I don't think that'll work.  There's a big difference between Pseudotypes and (normal) Types. Types are what implementations ACTUALLY deal with; pseudotypes are merely an abstraction created in this specification to simplify their specification.

For example, the value 2 can be a Basis, a DateParam (it means "2 days after the beginning of the epoch), a Number, and so on.  That's because at their heart anything based on Number is a Number.  There is no way for implementations to tell the difference; the only REAL difference is the difference between the types (Number, Text, Error, ...).


> Treat all types equally, i.e., no  pseudotypes
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>                 Key: OFFICE-2326
>                 URL: http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/OFFICE-2326
>             Project: OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: OpenFormula
>            Reporter: Patrick Durusau
>            Assignee: Patrick Durusau
>             Fix For: ODF 1.2 Part 2 CD 2
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> We currently have types and  pseudotypes. The latter does not appear to serve any meaningful role. 

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