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In article <n1tvht8gg83qd4l5jfegp9t2q5gpcfjoeb@4ax.com>, Roedy Green <roedy@mindprod.com> writes:

> however, sometimes there is nothing really useful you could add:
> e.g. 
> 
> "getZipPlusFive  get the US Zip+5 postal code."
> 
> If you add this sort of comment, you just needlessly create typing.
> You pad the source, diluting the true information.

The comment I would like to see is what it returns if only the Zip
code is known and not the additional digits.