RE: Gnumeric 0.76 experiences (long)

[Phillip Shelton <shelton usq edu au>]

<Rider>I am just a lurker</Rider>

If the use types in an invalid formula do you not have the input buffer that
you can just put into a string array? or does trying to parse it loose that
data?

Phill

> -----Original Message-----
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 11:35:38PM -0700, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
> > Jody Goldberg wrote:
> > > Not a small change.  Internal data structures assume sanity.  What
> > > you see on the screen or type on the keyboard have robust checking
> > > to ensure that only sane things make their way into the core.  Send
> > > a sample and I'll see what can be done.
> >
> >  desire.Wouldn't it be possible to create those invalid formulas as 
> > strings in gnumeric. This would make it quite easy for 
> users to fix them 
> > if they so  I believe the main cooncern is that currently the 
> > information hidden in those formulas is completely lost.
>
> This would be a huge task.  Not impossible, but large.  Stringifying
> an expression assumes that the expression is valid.  In some cases
> we'll be able to, lets tackle it on a case by case basis.  Please
> forward sheets that do not load, and we can catalog which problems
> are fixable, which are handlable, and which are too damn much work.
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