Re: AccrInt

[Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg home com>]

On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 09:14:12PM -0500, James R. Van Zandt wrote:
> I would much prefer that both compatible and correct versions be
> implemented. 
There are two distinct questions.
    1) replicate poor function interfaces
    2) replicate calculation errors
The former is a partial requirement.  We have no interest in the
later.

> I can offer two reasons: First, some of us are more interested in
> correctness than Excel compatibility.  Second, we can assume that
> Microsoft application writers have some interest in correctness (at
> least, more interest than their colleagues working on operating
> systems :-).  Eventually, they are likely to issue a new version of
> Excel with the correct implementation.

Our approach to (1) has been to support two interfaces.  One to
match XL and another to supply something more useful.