RFC: Constraints on Cash accounts
Derek Atkins
warlord@MIT.EDU
04 Dec 2001 10:35:41 -0500
What happens if you just change the (AUD$) currency so that the
denominator is e.g. 20 instead of 100? Does that do the right thing?
-derek
Conrad Canterford <conrad@mail.watersprite.com.au> writes:
> All,
>
> In Australia, physical cash (actual notes and coins) are limited to
> multiples of $0.05 by virtue of the fact that we have no 1c or 2c coins
> anymore. I'm sure a similar situation happens in other places.
>
> This proposal is to implement a warning on certain accounts when those
> accounts are not an exact multiple of the constraint. There are a couple
> of ways this can be implemented:
>
> 1. As an option to particular currencies, but only effective on
> accounts of type "Cash". This would mean that, if the currency has a
> constraint associated with it, any "Cash" account in that currency will
> display a warning if an amount is not a multiple of the constraint.
> 2. On a per-account basis, with a multiple as an account option. This
> would enable it to be applied to any accounts regardless of currency as
> a user-setable option.
>
> Option 2 is more general, but also a little fiddlier to implement.
> Option 1 satisfies all my requirements, but if Option 2 is preferred
> than that would be the better solution.
>
> What do people think? Would either 1 or 2 be useful? What other
> currencies might this apply to?
>
> Your comments please (either to the list or me directly).
>
> Conrad.
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