Hi Michael,

On Wednesday, 2011-08-24 12:54:14 +0100, Michael Meeks wrote:

> On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 11:07 +0200, Markus Mohrhard wrote:
> > But do you know if there is a reason except oox that the
> > FormulaCompiler and the FormulaTokens are not in calc?
> 
>       IMHO this was a highly retrograde step that was taken. There is / was
> no real problem with having a single formula compiler, in one place that
> can parse lots of different types of formulae.

See my previous mail, the actual reason to factor it out was the report
designer wanted to use the formula wizard.

>       It would be far more efficient and sensible IMHO to simply pass the
> incoming formula as strings over to the core: what we used to do before
> the brave-new-re-write to use masses of UNO ;-)

Yes and no.. simpler and more efficient yes, though the UNO filter
approach could be used for other formula languages as well. Not that
I do foresee some in the near future, but..

  Eike

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