Re: It is okay for things to break in the future!
Stephen D Green <[email protected]>
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So was the millennium bug a good thing because it alerted us to the year issue? ---- Stephen D Green On Mon, 5 Sept 2022 at 19:46, Norman Gray <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Michael, hello. > > On 5 Sep 2022, at 17:57, Michael Kay wrote: > > > UK phone numbers are variable-length. > > Fine -- then where I said '12', read 'up to 15' (which Wikipedia suggests is the ITU maximum). The original point is not phone numbers, or about validation, but the general point about a hard-coded maximum length not necessarily being bad design. > > Best wishes, > > Norman > > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.164 > > -- > Norman Gray : https://nxg.me.uk > SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK > > _______________________________________________________________________ > > XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS > to support XML implementation and development. To minimize > spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. > > [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ > Or unsubscribe: [email protected] > subscribe: [email protected] > List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php > _______________________________________________________________________ XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS to support XML implementation and development. To minimize spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ Or unsubscribe: [email protected] subscribe: [email protected] List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php