"John Wiegley" <[email protected]> writes: > >>>>> "HR" == Harshad RJ <[email protected]> writes: > > HR> The format and behaviour is described in the github issue > HR> <https://github.com/hrj/abandon/issues/57>. As far as I know, the . > HR> (period) at the beginning of a line is not recognized in ledger-cli, and > HR> hence open for adoption. > > This could quite easily be supported today by writing a pre-processor > for the "." syntax.
That would still be assigning a meaning to that, which would be incompatible with other potential meanings. If this were to become widespread the syntax would no longer be “up for adoption” as Harshad says. Are there better ways to implement this feature, that would not foreclose other uses of a one-character symbol like this? -- \ “Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity | `\ of the graveyard.” —Justice Roberts in 319 U.S. 624 (1943) | _o__) | Ben Finney -- --- 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.
