RE: [office-formula] Semantics

["Bastian, Waldo" <waldo.bastian@intel.com>]

Daniel Carrera wrote:
>What should happen is that if you type "3"+3 in Gnumeric, the formula
>gets saved as VALUE("3")+3 so that when I open it in OOo I get the same
>result you do.

But you wouldn't type "3"+3, you would type something like B3+3 and B3
happens to contain "3" at some point. I don't think such kind of exlicit
conversions by aplications are the way to go, I strongly doubt that you
can keep them transparent for the user and it may end up causing more
confusion than that it solves.

Cheers,
Waldo