What’s in a name?
When you want to store the name of a person a typical design starts out by creating two fields (in database or class): Person First Name Last Name Soon you realize lot of people have middle name, especially, when name change occurs after marriages. So you go and add one more field: Person First Name Middle Name Last Name This is all good… until you encounter people in countries such as Spain and Cuba who have custom to have two last names. Both are equally important and both are required in any official document (including ones your website or app may print out).
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What’s in a name?
