Re: [office-formula] Objectives for OpenFormula

["David A. Wheeler" <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>]

Patrick Durusau wrote:
> I sense that the OpenFormula draft is attempting to define conforming 
> applications separate and apart from conformance to the expressions, 
> operators/functions that it does define.

That wasn't _my_ intention.  However, I did intentionally separate the 
notion of conforming _applications_ from conforming _documents_. 
Perhaps that's the cause of your concern?

> If that is acceptable, there are some fairly immediate consequences for 
> the current formula draft:
> 1. All references to applications/implementations are removed 
> (conformance statements for applications can still occur in the 
> conformance chapter)

I'm concerned that this might create additional unintended requirements 
on documents.

Though I'll be honest, I'm having a little trouble visualizing what this 
would look like.

Can you point to one specific example and what you'd change it to?  That 
might help me understand the proposal better.

--- David A. Wheeler