the fact that these are strings instead of an object that is broken up by country code, area code, and number makes me irrationally angry.
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i think you think that telephone numbers are well-structured. they are not. they are messy. they do not fit a certain schematic.
I recommend also the following topic: “people have names”. https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/
Names do not in general fit into the schematic “first name, last name”
Is there not a “falsehoods programmers think about phone numbers” yet?
Edit: And once again, I’m still confused about some of these. Do we need to expand unicode for names? It’s supposed to be universal. WTF is up with 40?
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