Continent

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A continent, as the United Nations groups the world: europe, asia.

Use it for rough grouping, such as a sales report by continent. For anything legal or tax-related, use Country, since the UN's groups aren't borders.

Shape

One of these 6 values:

Continent.africa, Continent.americas, Continent.antarctica, Continent.asia, Continent.europe, Continent.oceania.

Example

example

Continent.europe

text.parse(raw, as: Continent) reads one from text that comes from outside. Text that isn't one at all fails malformed, such as Europa, 150 or north_america.

Good to know

The Americas are one value, Continent.americas. There's no separate North or South America.
== tells you whether two are the same. < and list.sort_by don't take it.

In JSON

A string, in a request, a response or json.write:

json

"antarctica""europe"

Details

Text form, storage, how it is shown, and operations

Continent is in the group Places, and has been in Jadpo since 0.1.0.

Text form

text.from writes one standard text form, the same form text.parse reads back: antarctica and europe.

How it is stored

It is stored in one column named for the field, of type text. europe is stored as 'europe'.

How it is shown to people

text.format(value, locale:) shows it to people in their locale.

With locale: Locale.en_gb:

Value	Shown
`antarctica`	`Antarctica`
`europe`	`Europe`

Operations

It also takes text.parse, text.from, text.format, json.read, json.write and ==. How every standard type behaves says how they work.

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