On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 03:18:17AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to remark: > > To generate reports, we need the ability to perform queries > > over objects. For example, we need to find all objects of type > > "split" between a start date and an end date, which belong to > > account XYZ; this query is used to generate the checkbook register. > > I've just coded a simplified version of this in python my little accounts
python may have built-in stuff that makes searching generic object instances for arbitrary field values easy; C does not. GnuCash is written in C. > > Another example: we need to find all objects of type "split", > > Here my lack of knowledge of accounting takes over and I bow out of the "split" is a (bad) name for "journal entry". A collection of journal entries that occur on the same date is a "transaction" (a set of journal entries that occur on different dates but concern the same object are a "lot"). --linas -- pub 1024D/01045933 2001-02-01 Linas Vepstas (Labas!) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Key fingerprint = 8305 2521 6000 0B5E 8984 3F54 64A9 9A82 0104 5933 _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
