Re: Updated openformula spec posted!

[Eike Rathke <erack@sun.com>]

Hi David,

On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 12:12:53 -0400, David A. Wheeler wrote:

> Jody Goldberg said, "I like the $$ prefix for names, that's a nice disambiguator" -
> that makes me happy!

Huh? I missed that, where did it come from?!? I see that it might be
good as a disambiguator, but such things will ensure that no current
version of applications supporting ODF already will be able to read the
new ODFF formulas.

Also:

| If NamedExpressions are later extended to permit calling them like
| functions, then the NamedExpression must be preceded by the “$$” marker
| in such cases – otherwise, it would be considered a traditional function
| call.

I don't see that. A function call always implies some identifier/name
followed by an opening parentheses. No parentheses => named expression.

Or was there some discussion to later enhance named definitions to take
parameters?

> I intend to tell the TC next Monday "please take a look at the syntax".

Well, TC can for sure take a look, the more eyes the better, but I don't
think it's ready. Or at least it is that I haven finished playing
catch-up ...

  Eike

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