Oh, I was not suggesting you change v2. I can do that easily enough myself
and install a patched version. What I was wondering was whether or not
doing so might introduce some critical bug.
On Friday, September 24, 2021 at 11:22:08 PM UTC-7 bl...@furius.ca wrote:
> Sorry mate v2 is frozen. Not enough cycles to work on two versions.
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 2:21 AM Jim Robinson <jim.ro...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thank you for the confirmation. I've never worked with flex, but I was
>> wondering what it is that prevents adding a single-character token as an
>> option?
>>
>> E.g., in lexer.l adding one additional [A-Z] token?
>>
>> 198 [A-Z] {
>> 199 return TOKEN(CURRENCY, yytext, yyleng);
>> 200 }
>> 201 [A-Z][A-Z0-9\'\.\_\-]*[A-Z0-9] {
>> 202 return TOKEN(CURRENCY, yytext, yyleng);
>> 203 }
>> 204 \/[A-Z0-9\'\.\_\-]*[A-Z]([A-Z0-9\'\.\_\-]*[A-Z0-9])? {
>> 205 return TOKEN(CURRENCY, yytext, yyleng);
>> 206 }
>>
>> In the spirit of blindly trying things I used the above change and it
>> *seems* to parse OK.
>>
>> (venv) $ cat ~/tmp/odd.beancount
>> 2014-02-16 open Assets:US:ETrade:Cash
>> 2014-02-16 open Assets:US:ETrade:V
>> 2014-02-16 open Expenses:Financial:Commissions
>> 2014-02-16 open Equity:OpeningBalances
>>
>> 2014-02-16 * "Opening Balance"
>> Assets:US:ETrade:Cash 10,000.00 USD
>> Equity:OpeningBalances
>>
>> 2014-02-16 * "Buying some V"
>> Assets:US:ETrade:V 10.00 V {231.59 USD}
>> Assets:US:ETrade:Cash
>>
>> (venv) $ bean-query ~/tmp/odd.beancount
>> Input file: "Beancount"
>> Ready with 6 directives (4 postings in 2 transactions).
>> beancount> balances
>> account sum_position
>> ---------------------- --------------------------
>> Assets:US:ETrade:Cash 7684.10 USD
>> Assets:US:ETrade:V 10.00 V {231.59 USD}
>> Equity:OpeningBalances -10000.00 USD
>>
>> On Friday, September 24, 2021 at 10:06:52 PM UTC-7 bl...@furius.ca wrote:
>>
>>> I was going to send a link to that section; you found it.
>>> The C++ parser is in branch "master" but it's not hooked up yet, it
>>> won't be running.
>>> I'm still working on finishing it (actually, these days).
>>>
>>> My plan is to finish it, then to translate the booking code to C++
>>> (with improvements in the design doc), and make a one-time conversion to
>>> Python objects, so we can use all the existing code and hook up the new
>>> parser.
>>>
>>> Just use V_ in the meantime.
>>> (Or trade options instead of single stocks... "V_211015_P222.5" is a
>>> valid currency symbol... you can sell ATM puts and size up a bit for
>>> equivalent delta exposure with a theta component. Okay okay, never mind...)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 12:35 AM Jim Robinson <jim.ro...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Huh, digging around in the source code I see it very specifically talks
>>>> about "V" as being a valid currency symbol in v3:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/beancount/beancount/blob/master/beancount/parser/lexer.l#L161-L204
>>>>
>>>> It looks like my install is 2.3.4 (it was recommended on the homepage
>>>> that we not use the master branch)
>>>>
>>>> On Friday, September 24, 2021 at 9:18:26 PM UTC-7 Jim Robinson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Oh, and please forgive the unbalanced transaction issue, I was just
>>>>> messing around with the example documentation and hadn't corrected that
>>>>> problem when I ran into the 'Invalid token' issue I was complaining about.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Friday, September 24, 2021 at 9:13:23 PM UTC-7 Jim Robinson wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> At first glance I can't see that there is a way to override what
>>>>>> beancount is doing here.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It appears as though it has some sort of an opinionated parsers as to
>>>>>> what is considered valid for a Ticker Symbol, and it won't accept "V"
>>>>>> (the
>>>>>> symbol for Visa). It appears to be wanting an all-uppercase > 1 length
>>>>>> symbol, which isn't really valid for the real world.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there a way to override this behavior? I'm not spotting anything
>>>>>> on my first pass of the options documentation.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The following ledger fails to parse, complaining about an invalid
>>>>>> token 'V' (specifically it is complaining about the use of the ticker
>>>>>> symbol as a unit in "10.00 V", it's fine with the account name).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2014-02-16 open Assets:US:ETrade:Cash
>>>>>> 2014-02-16 open Assets:US:ETrade:V
>>>>>> 2014-02-16 open Expenses:Financial:Commissions
>>>>>> 2014-02-16 open Equity:OpeningBalances
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2014-02-16 * "Opening Balance"
>>>>>> Assets:US:ETrade:Cash 10,000.00 USD
>>>>>> Equity:OpeningBalances
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2014-02-16 * Example purchase of stock symbol V (Visa)
>>>>>> Assets:US:ETrade:V 10.00 V {231.59 USD}
>>>>>> Assets:US:ETrade:Cash -23,159.00 USD
>>>>>> Expenses:Financial:Commissions 9.95 USD
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