On Aug 5, 2010, at 5:39 PM, Simon Michael wrote: > Current hledger doesn't support inferring prices the way ledger does there. > That's an easy job for someone, however are we quite sure it's a good idea ? > It feels like another step away from "double entry accounting, which catches > errors" and towards "accept anything they type in, if we can interpret it as > balanced".
To me, a good system doesn't make one express everything explicitly which could be determined implicitly. The computer should be doing work for us, not us for it. You have the option of being explicit in most cases; but if it's not necessary, let the computer do what it's there for. John
