<html>
<head>
<base href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/">
</head>
<body><span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:mikekaganski@hotmail.com" title="Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski@hotmail.com>"> <span class="fn">Mike Kaganski</span></a>
</span> changed
<a class="bz_bug_link
bz_status_NEW "
title="NEW - FORMULA: abs{x}^2 is formatted with unexpected operator precedence"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143881">bug 143881</a>
<br>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="8">
<tr>
<th>What</th>
<th>Removed</th>
<th>Added</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right;">Status</td>
<td>UNCONFIRMED
</td>
<td>NEW
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:right;">Ever confirmed</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>1
</td>
</tr></table>
<p>
<div>
<b><a class="bz_bug_link
bz_status_NEW "
title="NEW - FORMULA: abs{x}^2 is formatted with unexpected operator precedence"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143881#c7">Comment # 7</a>
on <a class="bz_bug_link
bz_status_NEW "
title="NEW - FORMULA: abs{x}^2 is formatted with unexpected operator precedence"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143881">bug 143881</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:mikekaganski@hotmail.com" title="Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski@hotmail.com>"> <span class="fn">Mike Kaganski</span></a>
</span></b>
<pre>This is definitely an inconsistent behavior, and a bug. However, fixing this is
naturally a compatibility problem.
There are two options:
1. Do what Dante suggests in <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=143881#c4">comment 4</a> (the braces around the function).
Somewhat ugly, but the least intrusive solution keeping backward and forward
compatibility.
2. Introduce a compatibility flag, that would signal that abs priority is
changed. That would allow to use new precedence in new documents, and allow to
keep the formula layout in existing documents without the flag, but will break
the formula in older versions of software (or AOO). Also users would face
different behavior of formulas in different cases (maybe even inside the same
ODT, if two formulas internally have two different flag values).</pre>
</div>
</p>
<hr>
<span>You are receiving this mail because:</span>
<ul>
<li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>