On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 01:29:19PM -0500, John Wiegley wrote: > On Feb 4, 2010, at 7:35 AM, Johann Kl?hn wrote: > > > I keep most of my transactions regarding a specific account at the top > > of the file. Some of these transactions are related to accounts that > > are at the end of the file, sorted by date. When I now check against a > > balance in any of those transactions, ledger will be confused by those > > entries stated earlier in the file: > > Yes, balance assertions are currently order dependent, otherwise they would > need to be checked during an independent pass on the sorted data -- however, > the data is not fully sorted in every situation. Hmm.... > > John >
I'd suggest that assertions be strictly date dependent, and they take effect before any other txns on that date (ie: midnight). ------------------------------------------------------------------ Russell Adams [email protected] PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint: 1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3
