Problem showing the "Actual" ammount of money of placeholder accounts

[Adam Funk]

On 2008-05-07, Elizabeth Dodd wrote:

> On Thu, 8 May 2008, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Because a placeholder account does not "Actually" contain any
>> transactions, so it has no "Actual" balance.
>
> Unless you have made it a placeholder AFTER it had lots of transactions, to 
> stop new transactions going into a closed account.
> Users will always find ways to pervert the intention of the developers.

I've been told right here that setting the placeholder flag is A Good
Way to "stopper" an account without losing the information in it
(e.g., when you close a bank account).

Maybe "placeholder" should be called "read-only"?