I started this whole discussion because GnuCash missed the capability to track eCurrencies accounts and precious-metal denominated bank accounts, which both are a reality and do not fit the stock/fund account paradigm.
Derek already said previously that an issue had been identified, that the best and simplest way to address it is to add just another user-definable currency namespace, and that is what he is going to do. I thank him for doing this, it is important and extremely useful. So from a practical point of view, that is all that is needed, you do whatever you want with the feature once it is there. The other issues raised are philosophical, I think. I suggest anybody who wants to continue the discussion reads first Ludwig von mises "The Theory of Money and Credit" (http://www.econlib.org/library/Mises/msTContents.html) and take the discussion off the list ! :-) bruno _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
