docs: more balance assertions clarifications

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Simon Michael 2013-05-28 17:07:12 -07:00
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After reading a journal file, hledger will check all balance
assertions and report an error if any of them fail. Balance assertions
can protect you from, eg, inadvertently disrupting reconciled balances
while cleaning up old entries. Be aware that they may have some impact
on parsing performance. Also note, balance assertion amounts currently
must have a commodity symbol.
while cleaning up old entries. Some tips:
- balance assertions depend on the order postings are parsed from the file(s). The posting's date is ignored, currently.
- balance assertion amounts currently must have a commodity symbol.
- balance assertions' impact on parsing time for large files is not yet known.
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