Hledger: Discrepancy between in-file and command-line aliases in hledger 1.5

[wxd]

The following journal works just fine:

alias b=bank
alias cc=credit-card

01/01 Opening balances
    (bank)         100
    (credit-card)  -10

01/02
    expenses  5
    cc

01/03
    expenses  5
    b

01/04 Credit card charge
    cc  = 0
    b

01/05
    expenses  5
    b         = 75

> hledger --file=aliases.txt balance

                  75  bank
                   0  credit-card
                  15  expenses
--------------------
                  90

However, if the aliases in the file are moved to the command line, hledger cannot balance the last posting:
hledger --file=no-aliases.txt --alias=cc=credit-card --alias=b=bank balance

hledger: could not balance this transaction (real postings are off by 90)
2018/01/05
    expenses               5
    b                     85 = 75

Is there a fundamental difference that I'm missing? Or is this an erroneous behaviour?

• aliases.txt
• no-aliases.txt

[simonmichael]

Looks erroneous to me. Possibly similar to https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/issues/729#issuecomment-381259336 . Thanks!

[adept]

Yes, this is definitely similar. Aliases are applied only after the journal is finalized (and all missing amounts inferred). If my fix for 729 looks good (see #732), this issue could be easily on top of it