RE: [office-formula] Not worth a JIRA issue - 5.1 Function namesignore case. ?

["Dennis E. Hamilton" <dennis.hamilton@acm.org>]

1. Does the ignoring of case also apply to the use URI-mappable qualified
names to identify the "namespace" of an extension-provided function and
special ones like "LEGACY"?  (The model is equivalent to the scheme used for
the Java language.)

2. Is this one of those case-is-ignored but don't change the case that the
producer used situations?

3. Or is it one of those situations where case might be honored but to be
safe, never use names that differ only in case and expect them to identify
separate functions?

4. If case is ignored for function names, does this impact other names
(tables, arrays, sheets, defined functions, and cell coordinates)? 

 - Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Eike Rathke [mailto:erack@sun.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 04:09
To: office-formula@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [office-formula] Not worth a JIRA issue - 5.1 Function
namesignore case. ?

Hi Patrick,

On Thursday, 2010-01-28 16:17:11 -0500, Patrick Durusau wrote:

> Do we mean Functions ignore case?

No.

> Or do we mean that evaluators ignore the case of function names?

Of course.

  Eike

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