One man's bug is another man's feature! I can live with it. I just need to write that section of the manual better.
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 4:03 PM, thierry <[email protected]> wrote: > Having multiple commodities in one account (mix of currency and share) and > being able to assert per commodity, is for me a feature. I can then have > "=0 $", but also "=10 AAPL". I use this quite often. > > Thierry > > > On Thursday, January 3, 2013 11:22:17 PM UTC+1, Craig Earls wrote: >> >> If we use an assert to establish the balance of an account (ignoring the >> data confusion in the other thread) the behavior of the balance is >> unexpected (for me): >> >> If the amount in an account is a mixed commodity (say some mixture of >> dollars and shares) and you sent the amount if the account to a specific >> value say Asset:Investments = 0 VIFSX, it ignores the OTHER commodities. >> It seems to me the the assertion should be like an assignment so if there >> are other commodities in the account but not specified in the assertion >> they should be set to zero. Does anyone else have this confusion? >> >> -- >> Craig, Corona De Tucson, AZ >> enderw88.wordpress.com >> > -- Craig, Corona De Tucson, AZ enderw88.wordpress.com
