[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 106058] EDITING: Make Calc understand currency

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106058

--- Comment #9 from cheater00 at gmail.com ---
Stuart, thanks for your comment. I am well aware that what you described *is*
standard operating procedure. However, I strongly believe that it is not the
most desirable state of things. Basically we currently have a language with a
few primitive data types. It is desirable to extend those to support newer
types. As spreadsheets are almost always used to hold money it is difficult to
understand why no data type special to mobey has been introduced. I can only
imagine this stems from historical heritage, from times of DOS spread sheets
where every byte came at a cost. But if you were to design a language or tool
*today* to calculate money accounts and transactions, would you explicitly
build it so that it

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