On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 4:39 PM, thierry <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> And different from currency, as soon as you are trading, then multiple
> *commodity* is standard. BTW, it is not difficult to start trading, if your
> company is traded on any stock exchange, you can not avoid that your
> company is distributing shares.
>
> > 2014-06-20 balance*  Assets:Some:Account    10 GOOG, 640.40 USD
>
> About that syntax:
>

Note: I may not have been specific about the context here, but I inferred
that the syntax above would be specific to Beancount. I'm not even trying
to be backwards-compatible with Ledger syntax at this point, nor am I
suggesting that Ledger should change its syntax either.



> - I have at least 2 accounts, where I do have more than 6 commodities.
> With names of commodities that are 20 characters long. This would make
> things tedious...
>

I don't see it as a problem.
I prefer to have all directives types looking similar, I like the
regularity of it:
http://furius.ca/beancount/doc/cheatsheet/beancount-cheatsheet.pdf




> - Also, do not forget that some of us are using comma as decimal separator
> That syntax above may not be the best one.
>

Not supported at the moment in my implementation, but I don't think it
should be a problem with the parser.

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