Unabasheded laziness and the phone edit

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> I'd suggest perhaps adding one more thing to the phone edit.
> 
> The formerly European standard of dots to separate group in
> printed material seems to be catching on here - and running from
> a numeric keybpad it is very fast to type 888.555.1212.  The dashes
> are also on a keypad but no )'s.  And when you use a standard
> keyboard and touch type numbers dots is also quite fast as the ('s
> and )'s require shifting.

If you -really- want one...

Broken over two lines for readability

BVPHONE \ [( N N N (<".">[!" "!][!"-"!]))] N N N (<".">[!" "!][!"-"!]) N N N N
        | N N N (<".">[!" "!][!"-"!]) N N N N

5025551212
502 555 1212
502.555.1212
502-555-1212
502-555 1212
502-555.1212
502.555 1212
502.555-1212
502 555-1212
502 555.1212
5551212
555 1212
555-1212
555.1212

I don't think I missed any permutations, and they all work.  Field length
of 12 on this one, not 14, since there are no parens around the area code
you said is no longer really wholly germaine.

> Since several areas of the country now do not have 'area codes'
> any more and it's just plain old 10-digit-dialing for all numbers,
> and that in the near future once you have a phone number it can
> follow you anywhere you go - and it will be ten digits - 'area
> codes' are a hangover from the first days of direct-dialing, that
> date to AT&T's experiment in New Jersey.

But is everyone breaking them in the same place for readability? 

mark->
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