[REVIEW 3-6, 3-6-0] fdo#50345 accept empty string as scalar numeric 0 argument

[Markus Mohrhard]

Hey Eike, Kohei,

2012/7/19 Kohei Yoshida <kohei.yoshida at gmail.com>:
> On 07/19/2012 10:29 AM, Eike Rathke wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Please review and cherry-pick to 3-6 and 3-6-0
>>
>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=a439cb5aba49d01df20f67a2c84b68542e4d3d5a
>> that resolves https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50345
>> to accept empty string and strings containing only blanks as an argument
>> converted to numeric 0.
>
>
> We already discussed this on IRC, but I disagree with this "fix" since it
> basically breaks another valid use case that relies on the current behavior.
> So, I'm afraid I cannot sign off on this.
>
> Having said that, if someone else wants to sign off on this, then I'll stay
> silent.
>

I'm also not fully convinced of this patch. This behavior has been in
Libreoffice since the start so IMHO it is more important to keep the
behavior for all the LibO users than to change it again to please
potential users switching from OOo.

I think the only sane solution that will please both sides is to have
it as configuration option but I'm not thrilled to see the default
behavior changed again.

This is just my opinion and if anyone still think it is a good idea
the patch looks correct from a technical perspective.

Regards,
Markus