On Wed, Sep 6, 2023 at 8:33 AM Daniele Nicolodi <dani...@grinta.net> wrote:
> On 06/09/23 16:54, Eric Altendorf wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Sep 6, 2023 at 04:00 Daniele Nicolodi <dani...@grinta.net > > <mailto:dani...@grinta.net>> wrote: > > > > On 06/09/23 01:27, Sagar Shankar wrote: > > > Hi Dan, > > > > > > Thanks a lot, this works now! A simple line on this in the pad > > > documentation would be great for future reference of others > > > > The behavior is due to the balance directive being treated specially > > when sorting, not to the pad directive. Ordering is relevant for how > > all > > directives are processed. You would have observed similar issues if > you > > had a transaction and a balance assertion on the same day. The order > in > > which directives are processed is documented. I don't think adding a > > note to the documentation of each directive remembering the ordering > > issue would make the documentation better. > > > > > > Booking decisions and validity are also order dependent. > > > > Given how much the current documentation emphasizes that the order of > > entries doesn’t matter, this is IMHO confusing for new users. > > Can you please point to where the documentation states that ordering > does not matter? Obviously, order matters in a system designed to track > the changes of quantities (the balance of accounts) over time. What the > documentation states is that the order in which the entries appear in > the ledger does not matter, unless it is required to break ordering ties > of events registered on the same date. This is precisely documented. > > > I do believe the documentation would be improved by describing > > (somewhere) those cases where intra-day ordering *does* matter, and > > referencing that caveat in the places where ordering-invariance is > claimed. > > Ordering of transactions registered on the same day has nothing to do > with the problem discussed in this thread. > > However, if you have ideas on how the documentation can be improved, > feel free to send patches. Help is always welcome. > Where does the documentation live in github? I can look again for the spots that I personally found confusing in the past and reevaluate them given what you've said, and if I can still think of improvements, send patches. Thanks, Eric > > Cheers, > Dan > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Beancount" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/2f5012cb-2ddd-b30f-aa00-7b5bf035e7e8%40grinta.net > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAFXPr0tNJn9VHJyp2mu3FMjqpAivmep3TdB1JtxV%2B_SiXAxUXQ%40mail.gmail.com.
