Re: [office-formula] LEGACY.NORMSINV, LEGACY.NORMSDIST, why LEGACY?

[Eike Rathke <erack@sun.com>]

Hi Andreas,

On Friday, 2007-01-26 14:02:49 -0700, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:

> > > > NORMSDIST and NORMSINV are listed as LEGACY.NORMSDIST and
> > > > LEGACY.NORMSINV, I think we should use the usual names without the
> > > > 'LEGACY.' instead, there's no need to arbitrarily create a difference.
> > > 
> > > unless you want to emphasize that these functions should not be used
> > > anymore but are only supported for legacy documents.
> > 
> > What would be the reason why they should not be used?
> 
> Why would one want to use NORMSDIST instead of NORMDIST inside an ODF
> file?  Perhaps there may be a reason for applications to use NORMSDIST
> in the use interface to save some typing (but of course that is only
> needed if the interface used to enter function does not provide
> reasonable defaults.

Well, shurely one may write a NORMSDIST(x) either as NORMDIST(x;0;1;1)
or as LEGACY.NORMSDIST(x), I just don't see any benefit in preferring
NORMDIST over NORMSDIST. Both usually are implemented, and both are in
the "Medium Group".

  Eike

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