Harriet Bazley
2022-06-29 17:20:19 UTC
I was trying to port a PipeDream sheet to FireworkzPro and came across a
very insidious problem: it is possible to have a user-defined name in
PipeDream which coincides with one of the new built-in functions in
Fireworkz. Which means that all formulae containing that name/cell
reference simply fail silently to work in the imported sheet, because
Fireworkz now sees the references as functions with bad parameters...
(What seems to me to be a bug is that both PipeDream and Fireworks will
in fact quite happily allow you to attempt to *define* names which clash
with existing functions, e.g. 'index', without this throwing up an error
of any sort at the point of creation. They even appear in the menu of
names which can be inserted into formulae. They just get interpreted as
plain text strings instead of as the defined range or value that shows
up whenever you inspect or edit them!)
very insidious problem: it is possible to have a user-defined name in
PipeDream which coincides with one of the new built-in functions in
Fireworkz. Which means that all formulae containing that name/cell
reference simply fail silently to work in the imported sheet, because
Fireworkz now sees the references as functions with bad parameters...
(What seems to me to be a bug is that both PipeDream and Fireworks will
in fact quite happily allow you to attempt to *define* names which clash
with existing functions, e.g. 'index', without this throwing up an error
of any sort at the point of creation. They even appear in the menu of
names which can be inserted into formulae. They just get interpreted as
plain text strings instead of as the defined range or value that shows
up whenever you inspect or edit them!)
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Harriet Bazley == Loyaulte me lie ==
We will release no software before its time.