https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70806

--- Comment #8 from Winfried Donkers <winfrieddonk...@libreoffice.org> ---
(In reply to Robinson Tryon (qubit) from comment #6)

My conclusion after a quick look in the code base is that the code explicitly
allows the absence of the field argument, as long as the criteria argument
produces valid results (DCOUNT as well as DCOUNTA).

The ODF1.2 standard does not mark any argument optional.

One could wonder if this is a violation of the standard or functionality that
is more than required by the standard. We have more functions in Calc that
offer more functionality than is required by the standard.

The code has not been changed since the start of LibreOffice, the last change
to the DCOUNT/DCOUNTA code is from March 2010.

I would suggest to change the (help) documentation to reflect its actual
functionality, which IMHO is more user friendly than strict coherence to the
standard. But then, I'm only a developer ;-)

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