Re: Exegesis 7: :fill Option

[Damian Conway]

Smylers wrote:

The :fill option gets a brief mention on page 10, but I didn't spot it
anywhere else or being used in an example:
  There is also a general C<:fill> option that sets the default sequence
  for any filling that isn't otherwise specified.
 
That suggests there's a hierarchy of options like this:

  :fill
      :hfill
          :lfill
          :rfill
      :vfill
          :tfill
          :bfill
Correct.


With the most-specific option applying being used on an edge.  But
horizontal and vertical filling is so different that I'm struggling to
think of what use C<:fill> could have.
Is my interpretation right?  And if so, has anybody got an example of
using it?


use Perl6::Form;

$floor_plan = <<EOPLAN;
################################
#                         #  # #
######################### # ## #
#                              #
# #   # #   ###  ##   ######## #
# ##### ###  #  ##    #   #  # #
#       # ##   ##       #    # #
### #####  ############## #### #
#                              #
################################
EOPLAN
$legend = <<'EOLEGEND';
# - Wall
* - Gold
@ - You
^ - Trap
@ - Stairs
$ - Bank
& - Statue
! - Potion
( - Sword
{ - Bow
= - Door
| = Wand
EOLEGEND
print form
    {page=>{length=>24}, fill=>'#'},
    '{=]]]]{*}[[[[=}## {="{*}"=} ##',
    $floor_plan,      {hfill=>' '},
                      $legend;