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Address Book can't correctly find partial phone numbers
Authored by: joestalin on Feb 25, '04 11:48:18AM

Not that it excuses this bizarre behavior, but I think there may be a logical reason behind this.

Phone numbers are unusual in that it is a little more efficient to match them from back to front, because you don't need to worry so much about whether the area code is there. So I can imagine that a clever programmer said "aha! I'll just reverse the phone-number field and reverse the requested phone number, and save myself a few operations." But he forgot to include that flip on phone numbers keyed into the search field. Or something like that



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