Mark A. Biggar writes:
> Larry Wall wrote:
>
> >On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 11:59:15AM -0800, Gregor N. Purdy wrote:
> >: Smylers --
> >:
> >: So, what I'm looking for is more explicit phrasing around "immediately
> >: above". In the example, the column range for the overflow field is
> >: exactly the same as that of the $method field in the prior "picture".
> >: But, what does it do if it doesn't match *exactly*? Is it an error,
> >: does it have some heuristics to guess? What are the edge cases?
> >
> >Well, obviously this is one of those places where the implementation
> >is the spec. :-)
>
> Arn't there cases where the overflow field want to be bigger then the
> first field? Something the ends up looking like:
>
> LABEL: texttexttextexttexttext
> texttextexttextetexttexttextte
> xttexttexttexttexttexttextttex
>
> where LABEL is in one field and text... is in an oveflow block?
Yeah. I'd do that this way:
form '{<<<}: {<<<<<<<<<<<<â}',
$label, $text,
'{â<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<â}',
$text,
'{VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV}';
I think that works... I only read E7 through once and quickly, so I'll
have to double check that against Perl6::Form;
Luke
