Commodities initialization list

[Derek Atkins]

Phil Longstaff <phil.longstaff at gmail.com> writes:

> I recently found the need to add a new stock which is traded on the TSX
> (Toronto Stock Exchange). Why do we hard-code commodity sources? I don't
> want to have to recompile to use a new exchange.

You don't.. It's a user-defined field with a set of pre-defined initial
entries.  But it's a free-form user-enterable text field.  So just add
"TSX" in the field to create a new namespace.

> Phil

-derek
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