Re: [lmi] How to create composite illustrations?

[Vadim Zeitlin]

On Tue, 22 Aug 2017 14:04:10 +0000 Greg Chicares <address@hidden> wrote:

GC> On 2017-08-22 01:29, Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
GC> [...]
GC> >  Anyhow, now that I can test this, I have another question about composite
GC> > illustrations, perhaps slightly less stupid: what should be shown for them
GC> > in the numeric summary table? Currently it still shows "Age 70" for them
GC> > (if it exists), just as it does for the individual illustrations, and the
GC> 
GC> [In production, which is HEAD as of the datestamp in 'version.hpp',
GC> I don't see that--instead, it seems to omit the age-70 row.]

 Sorry, I realize that "it" turned out to me ambiguous above, I meant to
say that my new code does it.

GC> > code in FlatTextLedgerPrinter::PrintNumericalSummary() does the same, so 
it
GC> 
GC> [It does, but it shouldn't. I'll fix that.]

 Thanks in advance!

GC> > would seem to be correct, but I can't help wondering why do we speak about
GC> > the age here when I thought it was ill-defined in the composite case,
GC> > because age would be different for its different individual participants?
GC> > So to whose age 70 does this row refer to?
GC> 
GC> Good question. The applicable regulation is designed with individual
GC> illustrations in mind. A composite combines a number of individuals,
GC> who are unlikely to have the same age, so "age 70" really has no
GC> meaning on a composite, and therefore it's appropriate to omit any
GC> age-70 row on a composite.

 Thanks for confirming that this is as logical as I thought it was,
VZ