Unabasheded laziness and the phone edit

[John Esak]

>
> > Mark,
> > I don't understand what you mean about his not supplying it in the short
> > form of the edit... It is not required there. The whole edit works
> > properly... what is unbalanced? It sounds like your saying you
> would want
> > the fields to carry:
> >
> >    (201) 337-8009
> >          427 9009
> >
> > That would be very wierd and unconventional.
>
> Okay, I'll explain...
>
> \ <"("> N N N <")"> [!"-"!] <" "> N N N <"-"> N N N N | N N N
> <"-"> N N N N
>
> That's what Ken had.  The way I find it unbalanced is that you may enter a
> space -or- a dash in the first position, between area code and prefix, and
> either way you end up with a space there.
>
> But you may -not- enter a space and have it translate to a dash in the
> short form.  I would have rewritten the short form's notation as:
>      N N N <"-">[!" "!] N N N N
>
> That way, you can enter a whole number:
>
> 502 555 1212
> 555 1212
> 502-555-1212
> 555-1212
>
> ...and either way it would convert to the proper format, with a dash
> between prefix and suffix, and a space between the area code betwen the
> area code and prefix.  It creates a uniformness of data entry
> where you can
> use either a space or a dash in either place when typing it, but it will
> convert each location to its proper form for display.
>
> The way he had it, you could get the following to work:
>
> 502-555-1212
>
> But the following would not work.
>
> 502 555 1212
>
> It's just a symmetry/consistancy issue I have with data entry.
> You tend to
> do the same thing in both places (most people use dashes.  Some
> use periods
> as I accomodated for with the BVPHONE, where Bill suggested that also be
> allowed.  It's a matter of allowing any of the options in either location
> and translating each to what it should be for that place.  Anything that
> makes data entry easier is better for the operator.
>
> Hopefully that's a clearer explanation.
>
> mark->
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Yes, but data entry is _all about_ what you end up with... not so much how
easy it is to get it... what you end up with has to be consistent. With
"edits" this is most precisely so, and it sounds like you are saying that
ending up with

   (201) 337-8009
         337 8009

is okay and even desriael. We disagrees.  The data should look like

    (01) 337-8009
         337-8009

to stay consistent with what phone numbers look like in our society. They do
not look like

         337 8009

at least, not anwwhere I've seen.

John