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I'm intrigued. Your first name has two spaces in it?

That is, I think it is safe to say that we expect we can include spaces in the names of things. The movie is named "Star Wars", after all. That seems natural.

For people, though, we have grown used to someone having multiple parts of their name separated by a space. If given out of order, a comma.

Even in the "naming things" category. We are used to having to put quotes around names that have spaces. Or otherwise using a convention like Capitalized Identifiers to show something goes together. Probably isn't a clearcut rule.




> I'm intrigued. Your first name has two spaces in it?

No. But my name does.

> For people, though, we have grown used to someone having multiple parts of their name separated by a space. If given out of order, a comma.

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...


Ok. Something about the way I read the first post, I thought you meant your simple name. No reason it couldn't have spaces. My wife knew of someone named 1/2. Insisted it be a single character, too. Was amusing how hard that was for most payroll systems.

And I wasn't saying this isn't allowed. What we are used to is not the total of what is allowed. The fringes are full of mistakes, though. At some point, you make a statistical choice.




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