Re: Derivates docs

["Andreas J. Guelzow" <aguelzow taliesin ca>]

Neil Booth wrote:

> Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:-
>
>
> > Perhaps I missed the problem you were trying to solve?
>
> I think we may have got confused about what each other is
> talking about here 8-)
>
> I was referring to getting Gnumeric-native (which I mistakenly
> simplified to "non-Excel") functionse out of the
> global namespace, by prefixing them.
>
> For example, Excel cluttering the namespace with the bond
> functions like it does is not ideal, IMO.  If we create
> any Gnumeric-specific functions for bonds, we should give
> them a common prefix.


And I would rather go the other way: any Excel function we don't like 
should be pre (or post) fixed while the `good' ones (whether from XL or 
not)need no prefix.

Andreas




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