> * Leo <fqy....@tznvy.pbz> [2011-04-23 03:46:05 +0800]:
>
> On 2011-04-22 23:36 +0800, Roland Winkler wrote:
>> All these thought are not 100% mature and final. Suggestions welcome!
>> From a different perspective, I want to add that if someone doesn't
>> care about this field, he or she can completely ignore it and should
>> never notice that it is available.
>
> How about replace DEGREE field with two fields: PREFIX and SUFFIX. They
> can be ignored if the user doesn't want to use them so in a sense they
> don't get in the way. And these field names are much more general than
> DEGREE.

there can be only one prefix but many suffixes, right?
I suggest keeping them in a list where first is the prefix and rest are
the suffixes, so that "simple" records without any prefixes & suffixes
will have just nil there.

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