Funny currency exchanges?

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Thu Nov 13 10:15:08 EST 2008


"Charles Day" <cedayiv at gmail.com> writes:

>     It was by design to make sure you didn't keep adding quotes over
>     and over for the day.  What happens if you have a rate X, then a
>     rate Y, and then go back to rate X?  You'd have to check all the
>     rates for the day and see if X is there, or you'd add it twice.
>    
>     So the easy options were:
>    
>     1) Only once per day, or
>     2) Add for every txn, even if you wind up with duplicates.
>
> How about updating any existing price that was created by the transfer dialog
> for the same day?
>
>     Oh, and if you do #2 (or anything that's not #1) then you have
>     the question of which quote to pull in as the default when you
>     do create a new transaction...
>    
>     I didn't want to answer that question.  So I punted.

Umm.. I suppose that could work..

-derek

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