Re: [office-formula] Synonym?

[Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>]

Andreas,

Point taken.

Sorry, I was assuming there was substantial consensus on the 
functions/names, etc.

Well, I still have to clean them up whether they go in or stay out.

BTW, -40 over the weekend? Yikes!

Hope that you have a very warm and draft free office!

Patrick

Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 15:33 -0500, Patrick Durusau wrote:
>   
>> Eric Patterson wrote:
>>     
>>> The motivation for including the synonym functions is to provide a mechanism to persist the spreadsheet model in the way that the user created it.  If someone create a formula with the FISHER function, Saved, closed and re-opened the file only to have it replaced by ATANH, it would cause confusion.  For that reason, I think that we need to include all of the synonym functions.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> Oh, I have no problem with *including* the synonym functions, that is to 
>> say a function has two different names and part of its definition says 
>> that the name used for a function by a user shall be persisted until 
>> changed by the user.
>>     
>
> Eric didn't misunderstand my message. I do have a problem with including
> these synonym functions since they are completely useless and (in my
> opinion) misleading. Of course this includes that users shouldn't really
> have an option to use those functions in the interface in the first
> place.
>
> Of course defining these synonyms isn't quite as ridiculous as to define
> a function called "B".
>
> Andreas
>
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>
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