Rob Weir:
> > HI Leonard,
> >
> > Thanks for the proposal.
> >
> > Another way of accomplish this might be something in the middle. So,
> > imagine a application MENU choice that instead of calculating the values
> > and pasting them in as static values -- an approach with the liabilities
> > you mention -- have the Menu option paste in the underlying formulas. So
> > a menu option that pastes in a range/block of formulas. This approach
> > might be applicable in other places as well: a formula block template,
> > where you have a group of related functions that you want to paste in at
> > once, but have a single dialog box for filling out the common parameters.
> > This would make it more of an application UI feature than a format
> > question.
I like this idea very much. It eliminates the "doesn't recalculate"
problems mentioned earlier, without requiring a new complicated
spec for interoperability. It's also easy to expand; one trouble with a
"summary" is that everyone has a different idea of what the important
stats are. This way, you can add/remove whatever you'd like.
I suggest that we mention this as a "note" in the spec. Although such a note
wouldn't require anything, it would help other reviewers understand how
this kind functionality is supported without a special, unique mechanism
to do it.
--- David A. Wheeler
