>>>>> Simon Michael <[email protected]> writes:

> I find this a little harder to understand and explain, and unsatisfying that
> a balance assertion doesn't definitively nail down (programmatically and
> visually) what's in an account. You can add more postings, with 0 amount if
> necessary, to assert the balance of each individual commodity:

>   some:account  $1 = $4
>   some:account   0 = EUR 10
>   some:account   0 = FRF 15

> but you're still not absolutely sure of the account's balance - new
> commodities can show up there and the assertions won't notice.

You are right, there should be a way to "close" the set of assertions within a
transaction.  That is, each individual commodity must balance, but if at the
end we have anything left over, then the group of assertions has failed.  This
would then necessity adding 0 = FOO X declarations for all the other
commodities.

John

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