On 7/1/14 7:55 AM, Martin Blais wrote:
because of this, if you reorder your directives, e.g., you insert a new
directive before one that has a balance assertion on a posting that
affects an account with another assertion on the same date, it might
break a balance assertion that had previously been working.
I'm used to h/ledger working this way (entries with the same date being
processed in journal order). I don't mind it because a. it's intuitive
to users and b. it allows you to assert intra-day balances as well as
inter-day ones.
I do see that being completely independent of journal order is nice too.
IMHO, when designing this, the question you have to ask yourself is:
where do the balance amounts you report come from? Usually they come
from some statement, you copy the value from the line on your statement
which says "your balance on YYYY/MM/DD is X". OFX also has a field that
I haven't made a balance assertion corresponding to a bank statement yet
(good idea). Mine are more commonly for cash and need not be at the end
of the day. Eg:
2014/6/25 * adjust/reconcile cash
assets:personal:cash:wallet $-1 = $14.50
expenses:personal:misc
Choosing to define balance assertions on their own removes _just_ enough
degrees of freedom that it makes it unambiguous and order-invariant. I
think you could easily do the same thing in Ledger, in fact, this _may_
be the only thing that is needed to make Ledger's balance assertions
order-invariant.
Order invariance, and having balance assertions on postings or as
separate directives, are mostly orthogonal issues I think.
If the posting-based assertions do remain, then hledger will
probably go ahead and add == to assert against the full
multi-commodity amount.
How do you plan to disambiguate for the case I point out above?
Do you mean the ordering issue ? The comment you're quoting there
doesn't change anything there, hledger would still process transactions,
postings and assertions in (1) date and (2) journal order.
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