Re: [office-formula] Grouping functions and capabilities

[robert_weir@us.ibm.com]

Thinking outside of the spec for a second
-- I'm wondering if there is a better way to solve this problem?  Why
do we have implementations that only support a subset of a functions capabilities?
 Lack of code?  If so, let's get the full implementations of
all of the code available as open source under a licence that allows everyone
to use it.  Solve the problem that way.  

I'm thinking if we have only a small
number of functions like that, getting the code available may solve the
problem.  If we have a large number of functions like that, then we
have a bigger problem.

I'd rather not specify a mess just because
the mess exists.  I'd rather specify the way things should be and
then make it easy for implementations to catch up.

-Rob

"David A. Wheeler" <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>
wrote on 07/12/2006 01:11:08 PM:


> 
> We still need leveling "inside" a single function, because
some functions have
> both a minimal capability (e.g., with limited domain or lack support
> of certain options),
> vs. a larger capability, and I'd expect that to be captured here too.