From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10ad19,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ad19,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 11440e,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid11440e,public X-Google-Thread: 1073c2,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid1073c2,public X-Google-Thread: 107a89,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid107a89,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-11 10:41:54 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.bc.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roedy Green Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.awk,comp.lang.clarion,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.vrml Subject: Re: Commenting code Organization: Canadian Mind Products Reply-To: roedy@mindprod.com Message-ID: <0g0aitg74mv92t0h7jkkik5804ce6tbvtj@4ax.com> References: <9fjgha$blf$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <35mqhtkdfma2rggv1htcaq6vfn2ihs67a1@4ax.com> <3B1E1452.BAFAAB7F@baesystems.com> <3B1E4B93.7FB8A94D@lmtas.lmco.com> <3B1F3704.C7E0D03A@brighton.ac.uk> <3B202E17.7C728B66@brighton.ac.uk> <5sf0itoauh0fi1nvq4ll5ljmh3u4fjope1@4ax.com> <3B20E02A.FEDAC2BD@dresdner-bank.com> <3B212003.EDCD1219@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <3B249F8E.27C914E8@dresdner-bank.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 17:41:53 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.76.128.193 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.bc.home.com 992281313 24.76.128.193 (Mon, 11 Jun 2001 10:41:53 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 10:41:53 PDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ruby:10547 comp.lang.ada:8563 comp.lang.awk:2985 comp.lang.clarion:21675 comp.lang.java.programmer:75340 comp.lang.pl1:971 comp.lang.vrml:3717 Date: 2001-06-11T17:41:53+00:00 List-Id: On Mon, 11 Jun 2001 12:38:06 +0200, James Kanze wrote or quoted : >What about the web page designers who insist that the postal code >comes after the city and state, and won't let you enter an address >without a state? I did an application for a group called IFIAS many years ago in Abundance. They wanted the postal codes, and city codes verified and placed in the correct order for each different country. I figured eventually someone could do smoothing like that for Java. You have an ADDRESS class that just deals with all that verification, formatting, squeezing to fit in the given real estate by hook or by crook, shrinking, abbreviating, squeezing out white space, or on screen by having scrollable fields. You also do the sorting in the various magical orders the post office wants mail physically sorted. To do this properly requires huge tables that need to be frequently updated. For more detail, please look up the key words mentioned in this post in the Java Glossary at: http://mindprod.com/gloss.html -- Roedy Green, Canadian Mind Products Custom computer programming since 1963. Ready to take on new work.