RE: Financial library

["Phillip Shelton" <shelton usq edu au>]

In making the financial functions non gnumeric specific, gnumeric will have
to have a wrapper to add the spread sheet requirements to them so it should
not be too hard to write wrappers for the dates either.

If gnucash is benefiting from numeric with the financial functions then
gnumeric can benefit with more date functions. Yes?

I can pull out the functions and what they presently take as arguments from
gnumeric. But others will have to list want gnucash wants and needs.  I will
also like help in what needs to be done to make a set of functions into a
library.

Phill

> -----Original Message-----
> Phillip J Shelton writes:
>  > Woud also having the date functions in this library be a
> good thing?
>
> On the face of it, that's not a bad idea.  However, the gnumeric
> people to some extent have already had their date representation and
> functions decided for them (by the desire for Excel combatability),
> whereas we are free to do whatever we want in regards to
> representation, and we have some rather complex goals which will
> probably *require* a more complex representation.
>
> In summary, I'm certainly not opposed, but I don't know whether it's
> we have a natural match of requirements like we do for financial
> functions.