Re: [office-formula] Re: OASIS: Infix Operator "^"

[robert_weir@us.ibm.com]

"David A. Wheeler" <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>
wrote on 02/22/2007 03:59:20 PM:

> On Thu, 2007-22-02 at 21:09 +0200, Leonard Mada wrote:
> > > Chapter 6.3.5 of the OASIS OpenFormula document (version
2007-02-14) 
> > > describes the Infix Operator (^).
> > > 
> > > However, it contains a lot of mathematical ERRORS:
> 
> Andreas J. Guelzow
> > Considering that the document contains definitions there is no
claim
> > that the terms match what others may define. Unfortunately there
is a
> > significant discrepancy of the normal mathematical definitions
and what
> > is used in spreadsheets.
> > 
> > In any case, OpenFormula describes the syntax used in a file.
There is
> > no absolute requirement that this is what the user sees. As noted
below,
> > Gnumeric includes aditional parentheses in case were precedence
is
> > unexpected.

That is an important point.  This is a storage
format, not necessarily a UI format.  The UI could accept formulas
in Reverse Polish Notation if it wanted to.

-Rob