An alternative is to have "fill rightmost gaps" and "fill leftmost gaps" on
alternate lines. This produces more balanced looking columns, so they don't all look heavier on the left.
That's a *very* interesting idea. What do people think?
For example:
Now is the winter of our discontent / Made
glorious summer by this sun of York; / And
all the clouds that lour'd upon our house /
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. / Now
are our brows bound with victorious wreaths;
/ Our bruised arms hung up for monuments; /
Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,
/ Our dreadful marches to delightful
measures. Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his
wrinkled front; / And now, instead of
mounting barded steeds / To fright the souls
of fearful adversaries, / He capers nimbly in
a lady's chamber.vs:
Now is the winter of our discontent / Made
glorious summer by this sun of York; / And
all the clouds that lour'd upon our house /
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. / Now
are our brows bound with victorious wreaths;
/ Our bruised arms hung up for monuments; /
Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,
/ Our dreadful marches to delightful
measures. Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his
wrinkled front; / And now, instead of
mounting barded steeds / To fright the souls
of fearful adversaries, / He capers nimbly in
a lady's chamber.Or:
I think one of the outstanding features of OO
Perl is that is allows you to approach OO
with the same mindset as you're used to in
another language. By that I mean that you can
write OO Perl that's similar in structure and
operation to a C++ program, or OO Perl that's
very like Smalltalk, or OO Perl that mimics
Self, or CLOS, or Eiffel. I once even
implemented a Perl module that added Python-
esque scoping-by-indentation. In other words,
whatever brand of OO you're used to using,
you can stick with it when you move to Perl.
Eventually you discover that your notions
about what OO actually is have been stretched
and challenged so often that you've developed
an entirely new understanding of what OO
truly is -- your own OO mindset. But there's
another important aspect to all that
flexibility. Because it can accommodate such
a wide range of approaches, as you become a
more accomplished OO programmer Perl also
lets you select the most appropriate mindset
-- or mindsets! -- for a particular problem.
If you need OO closures in one application,
and interfaces in another, and prototype
cloning in a third, you can implement each in
Perl. And if you need closures and interfaces
and cloning and inheritance polymorphism and
objects that can change their class and
classes that can modify their inheritance
hierarchies, all in the same application, in
Perl you can do that too. So, although you
don't need to approach OO Perl with a
different mindset, after a while you're
almost certain to discover one. I don't know
of any other programming language that can
give you that.vs:
I think one of the outstanding features of OO
Perl is that is allows you to approach OO
with the same mindset as you're used to in
another language. By that I mean that you can
write OO Perl that's similar in structure and
operation to a C++ program, or OO Perl that's
very like Smalltalk, or OO Perl that mimics
Self, or CLOS, or Eiffel. I once even
implemented a Perl module that added Python-
esque scoping-by-indentation. In other words,
whatever brand of OO you're used to using,
you can stick with it when you move to Perl.
Eventually you discover that your notions
about what OO actually is have been stretched
and challenged so often that you've developed
an entirely new understanding of what OO
truly is -- your own OO mindset. But there's
another important aspect to all that
flexibility. Because it can accommodate such
a wide range of approaches, as you become a
more accomplished OO programmer Perl also
lets you select the most appropriate mindset
-- or mindsets! -- for a particular problem.
If you need OO closures in one application,
and interfaces in another, and prototype
cloning in a third, you can implement each in
Perl. And if you need closures and interfaces
and cloning and inheritance polymorphism and
objects that can change their class and
classes that can modify their inheritance
hierarchies, all in the same application, in
Perl you can do that too. So, although you
don't need to approach OO Perl with a
different mindset, after a while you're
almost certain to discover one. I don't know
of any other programming language that can
give you that.Damian
