Re: Exegesis 7: Overflow Fields

[Damian Conway]

Luke Palmer wrote:

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}';
Exactly.

And more often I think you'd actually want:

  LABEL: texttexttextexttexttext
         texttexttextexttexttext
  texttextexttextetexttexttextte
  xttexttexttexttexttexttextttex
which is even easier:

     form '{<<<}: {<<<<<<<<<<<<<}',
           $label, $text,
          '       {VVVVVVVVVVVVV}',
          '{VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV}';
Damian