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by brudgers 3990 days ago
Historical precedent indicates that this will not be a high value story for the product owner. Variant data types are a feature, not a bug. If they don't ship in the box, someone will union up their own to make life easier.

People use Excel to reason about their business. Reasoning about the code is a second order problem and SourceForge is paved with the rotting corpses of projects focused on making a better spreadsheet.