Slightly unrelated: I would love to be able to link note, document and balance directives to transactions. Currently adding ^link after any of those doesn't parse.
On Saturday, February 24, 2018 at 6:17:50 PM UTC+13, Martin Blais wrote: > > I had an idea tonight while attempting to reconcile some missing amounts > over a credit card account where my last balance was last year September. > > The problem is this: Beancount does not include time nor care about > ordering in the file. This is a really important property and I don't want > to ever change that. However, this means that it's impossible to create > balance checks in between transactions that occur on the same day. However, > this type of thing happens all the time with credit cards. There's no > solution at the moment, other than fudging the amounts, which is really > super annoying. > > I thought about this: How about I'd add an OPTIONAL link to balance > checks, or create a new type of balance directive. If the link is present, > the semantics would be: check the balance that occurs just before the > transaction which occurs on that same day, and which is the only one with > that link. (If there are more than one transaction on that day with the > link an error should be issued, IOW, it should be unambiguous.) > > Now, this seems straightforward to implement - and I was just about to > pounce! - but it's not: there's a whole lot of sorting going on, and it > might affect display as well. I'm not sure yet how to it. > > Ideas welcome. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/193ae9ca-19ca-49d4-8c98-f5081c18cf4c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
