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On Thu, 07 Jun 2001 21:58:10 GMT, Roedy Green <roedy@mindprod.com>
wrote:

>however, sometimes there is nothing really useful you could add:
>e.g. 
>
>"getZipPlusFive  get the US Zip+5 postal code."

I'd say that was useful comment, myself. Never having heard of
anything called "zip+5", I would not have guessed that it was a postal
code. Two words of added information: great! If all you'd said was
"gets the zip plus five code" then I'd agree that the comment would be
useless.