I would tend to agree with Eike. Let ODF be a data transport format.
Appllications can perform the fill operation however they see fit, then
store the result.
Eike Rathke <> wrote on 10/31/2008 08:29:12 AM:
> Hi Leonard,
>
> On Friday, 2008-10-31 01:15:08 +0200, Leonard Mada wrote:
>
> > This is a proposal to enhance ODF with a FILL() function. I planed to
> > post it long ago, but never got the time for it.
> > [...]
> > Spreadsheets notably lack such a construct.
>
> For a very good reason: a function should never modify the content of
> spreadsheet cells.
>
> Eike
>
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