Martin Blais pointed out to me a while back that some of Ledger's
naming choices are at odds with standard accounting terminology, most
pointedly my use of the word "transaction".
Therefore, today I checked in the following global name change in 3.0:
To better follow naming standards used in the accounting community --
particularly those relating to double-entry accounting -- the
following
technical terms in Ledger have been changed:
- what was "entry" is now "transaction"
- what was "transaction" is now "posting"
Correspondingly, the shorthand names "entry" and "xact" have been
changed to "xact" and "post", respectively.
This may be confusing for a little while, but I think it was a change
that needed to be made. Thanks to Martin for sticking by his guns and
insisting.
John
