| ▲ | itsthecourier 2 days ago |
| exactly, the author ignored the specs and try to come with conclusions of a system, just by doing a Hello World |
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| ▲ | EdwardCoffin 2 days ago | parent [-] |
| I think the point of the criticism I read was that the edit should have worked. There is no reason why the opaque mess following what was obviously a definition of the contents of the spreadsheet should even be there let alone be dependent on the original contents of the cells. |
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| ▲ | jeroenhd 2 days ago | parent [-] | | The obvious reason to have other stuff depend on the value of the cell would be to store a cache alongside the formulae. In a 300MiB XSLX, you don't want to evaluate every formula every time the spreadsheet is opened. | | |
| ▲ | EdwardCoffin 2 days ago | parent [-] | | If caches have a place in a file storage format, they should at least be optional and separate from mandatory content, and I got the impression from the critique that they were neither. |
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