acc_guid in split ??

[Linas Vepstas]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 11:57:52AM -0800, Dave Peticolas was heard to remark:
> On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 10:24, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> > 
> > Dave,
> > 
> > I notice that one of the changes made in teh last year or so was to 
> > store a copy of the account guid in the split structure.  As far as
> > I can tell using grep, this serves no useful purpose, and in fact
> > just makes the code somewhat confusing.   Do you know why its there?
> > (I thought maybe it had to do with the xml file backend, but no ..)
> > (Then I thought its a performance thing, but that seems wrong)
> > (Maybe its a future expansion thing I don't understand?)
> > Can I remove this and simplify things a bit?
> 
> It is actually used by the xml backend in the form
> of xaccSplitSetAccountGUID. 

well, I thought so, but I missed it during the grep.

It kinda-makes sense if one somehow finds out about an
account guid before one has created an account struct.  
However, I don't think the rest of the engine could 
handle this without croaking; so its dangerous.


--linas

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