Re: complex: user-friendly input ?

[Morten Welinder <mortenw gnome org>]

> Previously the CNS (complex number string) representation was
> rather strictly limited to things of the form "1+2," with no
> spaces allowed.  I have written some code to make this much
> less strict, so that "  1   +  2i  " is allowed.

This is a good idea and matches what Excel does.

Please file at bugzilla.gnome.org -- it's much better at keeping track of
things than the mailing list.

> Is there any policy or any wise lore about what to do if/when
> there is a conflict between doing the right thing and being XL
> compatible?

While this doesn't apply here, the general policy is to follow Excel semantics,
except when Excel does something clearly wrong.

Morten