[uf-discuss] Re: Possible alternative methods for "include"

[Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis]

Toby A Inkster wrote:
> For addresses, the order of the included elements is probably not 
> important. When it comes to, say, printing an envelope, we all know that 
> the street address comes before the locality. Parsers can have this 
> knowledge hard-coded.

This is probably true, although note this will require them to be 
locale-aware as such rules don't necessarily hold fast in different 
territories. For example, it seems that in Chinese addresses written in 
Chinese the locality would come before the street address:

http://www.upu.int/post_code/en/countries/CHN.pdf

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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis