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: 1073c2,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid1073c2,public X-Google-Thread: 107a89,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid107a89,public X-Google-Thread: 11440e,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid11440e,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-07 22:56:17 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: <4up0itohqg0clnug35c9oqped1jra5hn4d@4ax.com> References: <9fgagu$6ae$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9fjgha$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> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 05:56:16 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.76.128.193 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.bc.home.com 991979776 24.76.128.193 (Thu, 07 Jun 2001 22:56:16 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 22:56:16 PDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ruby:10475 comp.lang.ada:8386 comp.lang.awk:2884 comp.lang.clarion:21403 comp.lang.java.programmer:74630 comp.lang.pl1:890 comp.lang.vrml:3628 Date: 2001-06-08T05:56:16+00:00 List-Id: On Fri, 08 Jun 2001 03:10:53 GMT, Roedy Green wrote or quoted : >ZipPlus5 would be >instantly familiar to any American bean counting programming team. oops. Egg on face here. ZipPlus4. An American Zip is two zero padded ints 5+4 separated by a dash unless the second part is missing. eg. 90210-1234. I'm surprised there are not yet standard class libraries for display, keyin and validation of Zips and other business objects with some sort of mechanism to automatically refresh the lookup tables from the net. For more detail, please look up the key words mentioned in this post in the Java Glossary at: http://mindprod.com/gloss.html If you don't see what you were looking for, complain! or send your contribution for the glossary. -- Roedy Green, Canadian Mind Products Custom computer programming since 1963. Ready to take on new work.