From: Steve Litt <slitt@...>
Date: 2006-01-03T00:42:54+09:00
Subject: Re: The "ruby way" to break apart a name?

On Sunday 01 January 2006 10:25 pm, Gerardo Santana G�mez Garrido wrote:
> We had a similar problem at work.
>
> In the Spanish speaking world we use two last names: one from the
> father's family (apellido paterno) and another from the mother's
> family (apellido materno). For the "first name" there's no limit in
> the number of names.
>
> Fortunately for us, the names were stored in the database as:
>
> <apellido paterno> <apellido materno> <nombres>

I've always wondered about this, both in Spanish names and American hyphenated 
names. When the mother and father have a baby, does it go like this:

baby.apellido_materno = mother.apellido_paterno 
baby.apellido_paterno = father.apellido_paterno 

Or is it done like this:

baby.apellido_materno = mother.apellido_materno 
baby.apellido_paterno = father.apellido_paterno 

I KNOW it can't be this:

baby.apellido_materno = mother.apellido_paterno + '-' +mother.apellido_materno 
baby.apellido_paterno = father.apellido_paterno + '-' +father.apellido_materno 

If the preceding were done, names would become huge and still growing.

SteveT

Steve Litt
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