Re: [office-formula] Re: Proposal: Identifying nonstandardfunctions

On Wed, 2006-26-07 at 15:10 -0700, David A. Wheeler wrote:
> If we recommended using only enough of a reversed DNS name to ensure
> that the organization owns the namespace, the resulting
> names are actually not that long (surprisingly). E.G.:
>  COM.MICROSOFT.FOO(5;1)
>  ORG.OPENOFFICE.BAR(7)
>  COM.IBM.CAMELOT(8)
>  ORG.GNUMERIC.XOR(1;1)   # Gnumeric really does own gnumeric.org.

This seems like a good idea. And if later it turns out that a lot of
implementors add a similar function, that can later migrate into the
base spec in the appropriate group (I think that OpenGL works like
that).

Cheers,
Daniel.
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