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Subject: Re: [office-comment] Filling numbers & dates
I would tend to agree with Eike. Let ODF be a data transport format. Appllications can perform the fill operation however they see fit, then store the result. Eike Rathke <erack@sun.com> wrote on 10/31/2008 08:29:12 AM: > Hi Leonard, > > On Friday, 2008-10-31 01:15:08 +0200, Leonard Mada wrote: > > > This is a proposal to enhance ODF with a FILL() function. I planed to > > post it long ago, but never got the time for it. > > [...] > > Spreadsheets notably lack such a construct. > > For a very good reason: a function should never modify the content of > spreadsheet cells. > > Eike > > -- > OpenOffice.org / StarOffice Calc core developer and i18n transpositionizer. > SunSign 0x87F8D412 : 2F58 5236 DB02 F335 8304 7D6C 65C9 F9B5 87F8 D412 > OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS > [attachment "atteny3c.dat" deleted by Bryce L Nordgren/RMRS/USDAFS]
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