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The draft ODF TC teleconference minutes for 20 July 2026 are attached and included as plain text in this email.
I hope everyone is at the start of a great week!
Patrick
Inline Minutes:
Patrick: Minutes:
Patrick: Start of meeting: 12:02 EDT
Patrick: Roll: Francis, Patrick, Regina, Michael, Olivier - have a quorum
Patrick: Minutes of July 13th - approved by consent
Patrick: Action items:
Patrick: Regina - no need for a response - added a new proposal to 4201 for the Type function - remove from todo list
Patrick: Rename Item 5 - Regina's new proposal for Type in 4201
Patrick: B. pending
Patrick: C. pending -
Patrick: D. done
Patrick: 5. Regina's new proposal on Type which is OFFICE-4201
Patrick: Rich McLain has joined
Patrick: Francis is displaying the new proposal -
Patrick: New - complex numbers - should return 2 if text, otherwise 1.
Patrick: See references - cell rectangle or cell strip - return 64 (not evaluated)
Patrick: references to single cell - refer to other functions that say something about the type -
Patrick: last sentence - implementation defined - cubic references - for example - or an error -
Patrick: we have a rule that errors are not propagated - but applications return errors
Patrick: applications need to be able to tell users it can't resolve a reference
Patrick: Reference is a union operator - same problem
Patrick: Reference list is a union operator (correction)
Patrick: Francis - q on complex numbers
Patrick: See B. Reasoning for data type Complex Number
Patrick: Operations on complex numbers return complex numbers
Patrick: Regina's proposal can't distinguish between text and complex numbers
Patrick: discussion of lamda function possibilities
Patrick: We don't have a way to handle "rich data" in Excel
Patrick: Patrick - should we replace cell rectangle or a cell strip - with "more than one cell"
Patrick: Francis - mark this issue as resolved?
Patrick: Francis - marked as resolved.
Patrick: Adjourned - 12:59
-- Patrick Durusau
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Patrick Durusau
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