Re: Gnumeric 0.76 experiences (long)

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

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.