Luke Palmer wrote:
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;
Expect wouldn't that produce a extra blank line if $text is short? Or
do follow on blocks automatically do the perl 5 '~' thing? Overflow
blocks as well? Do we need a :option to control that. What if I
want a follow-on or overflow block to not suppress extra blank lines?
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