Syntax incompatibility with Ledger's auto posting multipliers

[Liam]

Hi there,

I noticed while flipping between Ledger and hledger that their syntaxes[1,2] for multipliers in automated postings seem to be mutually incompatible.

hledger requires an asterisk while Ledger requires a bare number. Is this intentional? It's not mentioned in the FAQ.[3]

A trivial example:
---
= Income
(Tithe) 0.1 ; Ledger
(Tithe) *0.1 ; hledger

2021-02-26 Example transaction
Income £10
Assets
---

Cheers,
Liam.

[1]: https://www.ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Amount-multipliers
[2]: https://hledger.org/hledger.html#auto-postings
[3]: https://hledger.org/faq.html#file-format-differences

[Simon Michael]

Hi, yes it's different. Ledger has a featureful embedded value expression language, while we have only a very minimal one. I have added a mention to the FAQ.

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[Liam]

On 26/02/2021 16:30, Simon Michael wrote:
> Hi, yes it's different. Ledger has a featureful embedded value
> expression language, while we have only a very minimal one. I have
> added a mention to the FAQ.

This incompatibility also makes the Journal Format[1] section of the docs incorrect too I guess?

> hledger's journal format is a compatible subset, mostly, of ledger's
> journal format, so hledger can work with compatible ledger journal
> files as well. It's safe, and encouraged, to run both hledger and
> ledger on the same journal file, eg to validate the results you're
> getting.

Ta,
Liam.

[1]: https://hledger.org/hledger.html#journal-format