I doubt that the design of Ledger explicitly called for the user to have to try to reorder transactions due to unforeseen precision value resets from preceding transactions in the file. So unless the resulting puzzles are part of a game, yes, that is a undoubtedly a bug.
On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 7:03 PM, Craig Earls <[email protected]> wrote: > Whether that is a bug or not is open for debate. Ledger is order > dependent in several ways. This is just one of them. > > On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 12:46 PM, Scott Carpenter <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Thanks for the replies. >> >> I wondered about the precision, too, but I had the same problem with >> ($2.53 * 1.8) >> >> From your link Martin I see that it is a known issue, and now that I >> understand it, hopefully I can avoid it. (Or will remember when I see this >> again.) >> >> Scott >> >> On Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 1:41:55 PM UTC-5, Martin Blais wrote: >> >>> On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Scott Carpenter <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I can reproduce it just with those two transactions: >>>> >>>> 2015/05/13 some place >>>> e: misc >>>> e: sundry ($2.539 * 1.8) >>>> l: credit card: big bank $-30.25 >>>> >>>> 2014/12/19 investments-r-us >>>> a: abc: investment banana 5.7424 ba @ $24.38 >>>> a: abc: investment bread 2.6954 br @ $22.26 >>>> a: abc: cash $-200 >>>> >>>> ledger -f [filename] --market reg "big bank" >>>> >>>> With the investment second like this, it has the error. If I put the >>>> investment first, it works. >>>> >>> Ledger has order-dependent behavior about precision: it seems to have >>> some notion of precision that depends on the last number parsed in your >>> file (across transactions). See this ticket for a detailed example of the >>> problem: >>> >>> *Bug 1082* <http://bugs.ledger-cli.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1082> - A change >>> in precision used on an amount in-stream affects the balancing precision of >>> following transactions >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >> >> --- >> 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 [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Craig, Corona De Tucson, AZ > enderw88.wordpress.com > > -- > > --- > 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 [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- --- 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
