roi: more input sanity checks (fixes #2505) #2506
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This checks for:
catch-all queries supplied to
--pnl, which will cause no transactions to be classed as "investment" (root cause of hledger roi --inv "^assets:investments" --pnl "" errors #2505)mixed commodities in cashflow / pnl transactions, as we can't add apples to oranges to compute a sensible rate of return
At the moment both of these cases fail with undecipherable error from the bowels of IRR computation. Let's fail with a sensible error message instead, and provide a path to resolution, if possible