[GNC-dev] Finance::Quote and the Toronto Stock Exchange

[gnu Gord]

Done.
It seems to work, please let me know if it's not what you need.


On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 11:23 AM Bruce Schuck <bschuck at asgard-systems.com>
wrote:

> On Sat Nov 26 18:47:16 EST 2022 Frank H. Ellenberger wrote:
>
> > nice to see you thinking a step further. But at first I have a
> > question: Why was it renamed from TSX to TMX?
>
> > From what I read in wikipedia the owner renamed itself a decade ago
> > but not the market.
>
> One of the maintainers changed the name of the module and the methods
> function when fixing it to account for the URL change in December 2020.
>
> * Original *
>
>      sub methods {
>        return ( tsx    => \&tsx,
>                 canada => \&tsx );
>      }
>
> * Current *
>
>      sub methods {
>        return ( tmx    => \&tmx,
>                 canada => \&tmx );
>      }
>
> Personally I have no preference on the fix, but I'm thinking that
> changing the function to the following will address the issue.
>
>      sub methods {
>        return ( tmx    => \&tmx,
>                 tsx    => \&tmx,
>                 canada => \&tmx );
>      }
>
> Gord, if you would like to do a quick mod and test and open another PR
> if it works, that would be appreciated. If not, I will see if I have
> time. I want to wrap up the few issues and PRs open and release F::Q
> v1.54 before the Christmas and New Years holidays if possible.
>
> > Also ISO 10383 https://www.iso20022.org/market-identifier-codes has
> > it still as TSX.
>
> > I would prefer, if the F::Q modules —where applicable— would follow
> > this standard.
> It is is something that should be a guideline. Unfortunately, most of
> the non-US exchanges are contributions from people outside of the main
> F::Q team. While those contributions are reviewed to ensure they work,
> usually checking against common identifiers is not done.
>
> - Bruce S.
>