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- Subject: Re: paterns for phones' numbers
- From: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 21:30:20 GMT
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- In-reply-to: <buskcv$glu94$1@ID-163087.news.uni-berlin.de>
- Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh
- References: <bsc3hl$4c8$1@atlantis.news.tpi.pl> <4iupuvomv3ic51n23gju55uk9a8flu8f4j@4ax.com>
>> Don't ! Phone numbers don't need structure - you just dial them and
>> they work. Trying to impose a structure like this causes no end of
>> problems (I used to write commercial desktop apps - I learned this
>> _years_ ago).
>Right.
Really? It used to be the case that in Britain that dialling the full
"long-distance" version of a local number *didn't* work; you had to
extract the local part. I think it now generally works, but I wouldn't
bet on that being the case everywhere.
-- Richard
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