Yes. It's a catch 22. Booking first allows some more interpolation, and interpolation first allows some more booking. Choosing do to one before the other provides different benefits. I wrote a doc somewhere with a bunch of examples trying to wrap my head around this, and came up with this particular compromise. I remember working hard on figuring out the best solution and I'm not sure I got there, this could potentially be improved, but I think surfacing a lot of the possible types of interpolation & automatic booking combinations will make your head hurt too (it did mine). I can dig it up if you want.
On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 10:19 PM Martin Michlmayr <t...@cyrius.com> wrote: > A non-profit I'm working with is moving to beancount. They have some > transactions in foreign currency and we had this idea of looking up > exchange rates from the pricemap and adding cost and price > automatically in a plugin where appropriate. A proof-of-concept plugin > worked fine but then I ran into a fundamental issue: beancount does > interpolation and booking before plugins. > > Doing interpolation before plugins makes sense, but I don't understand > why the booking code runs at such an early stage. Are there > fundamental reasons for this or is that something that could be > changed? > > -- > Martin Michlmayr > https://www.cyrius.com/ > > -- > 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/20200409021848.GD5254%40jirafa.cyrius.com > . > -- 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/CAK21%2BhMFqLqDECPgnUm7H-eftabs1v9QfwFf-JbnQC8P0t3bJw%40mail.gmail.com.
