Re: [xml-dev] It is okay for things to break in the future!

[Stephen D Green <stephengreenubl@gmail.com>]

So was the millennium bug a good thing because it alerted us to the year issue?
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Stephen D Green

On Mon, 5 Sept 2022 at 19:46, Norman Gray <norman.gray@glasgow.ac.uk> wrote:
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> Michael, hello.
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> On 5 Sep 2022, at 17:57, Michael Kay wrote:
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> > UK phone numbers are variable-length.
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> 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.
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> Best wishes,
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> Norman
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> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.164
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> Norman Gray  :  https://nxg.me.uk
> SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK
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