True, John. I should clarify, I'm thinking about just the characters to use for decimal point and digit group separator, and the digit group sizes, but not the precision (number of digits after the decimal point) which I agree should certainly stay commodity-specific.
> On Sep 4, 2016, at 4:59 PM, John Wiegley <jo...@newartisans.com> wrote: > >>>>>> "SM" == Simon Michael <si...@joyful.com> writes: > > SM> We could simplify this and say decimal point and digit group style are the > SM> same across all commodities, perhaps reducing confusion and hassle, cf > SM> > https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/issues/395<https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/issues/395> > SM> . Is this a good idea, or would it be too limiting ? > > I think it would be too limiting. Maybe I could buy it for decimal style, but > for precision, I always want to see dollars with 2 points of precisions, and > stocks and retirement accounts with a precision appropriate to each account. > Limiting everything to 2 would be odd, and limiting it to anything else would > make dollars amounts seem too precise. > > -- > John Wiegley GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F > http://newartisans.com 60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2 -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
