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Subject: Re: [office-formula] STYLE and CURRENT again


> Section "2.1.3 Large Group" has
> 
> | TODO: STYLE was not included in the list above, even though it's in
> | OpenOffice.org 2, because it does not appear to be appropriate in
> | a formula language.  If you believe it SHOULD be in this set of
> | functions, please explain WHY.   The conditional formatting system is
> | a more appropriate place for this kind of functionality, if it is
> | needed.  OpenOffice.org is free to implement it for their own users, but
> | it should not be imposed on others.


Eike Rathke
> that slipped my attention when we talked about CURRENT and STYLE before.
> If we don't want STYLE also CURRENT (which I already started to define
> in the latest draft) doesn't make much sense, except for few cases where
> it may be used to avoid repeated time consuming calculations within one
> formula without storing intermediate results in different cells, for
> example =Expression*IF(CURRENT()<100;1;100) would give a classified
> weighted result where Expression could involve a VLOOKUP(...).
> 
> If we don't want to include CURRENT and STYLE they would be stored as
> ORG.OPENOFFICE.CURRENT and ORG.OPENOFFICE.STYLE
> 
> Opinions?

I'm happy to drop both CURRENT and STYLE from the spec.  Others?

--- David A. Wheeler


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