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I just skinned this cat today in Grails with a custom taglib. Grails makes me all giddy. It even includes the ability to pass in a selected state by default. Rought 8 lines of code, (minus the actual key:value pair Map of course, but suppose I could have put that all on one line *wink*).

If you're going to claim something so definitive using adjectives such as "most", "ever", and "period", it better damn well be worth it. This isn't.

To be truly reusable, why not structure it in a manner which makes it language agnostic (XML comes to mind)?

Weak

you know... planet USA only has about 5% of the world's population...

The title should rather be "The Most Reusable Piece Of Code Ever In The US…Period" to prevent confusion.

because all we do is write code that needs a list of states and their abbreviations......

post was weak

Heh... You could code the ten commandments, that did not change in the last two thousand years, so we could call it constant. (as much as history is constant)

But it really perfectly demonstrates how some american coders ignore the rest of the world. No kiding, I know people over there still using ASCII :-) It is just not reusable at all.