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Re: random thought regarding the discussion of the formatting of ascii-art

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From:
Eric Wilhelm
Date:
August 6, 2008 20:17
Subject:
Re: random thought regarding the discussion of the formatting of ascii-art
Message ID:
200808062017.09518.ewilhelm@cpan.org
# from Michael G Schwern
# on Wednesday 06 August 2008 19:49:

>Maybe line them up and space them out?
>
># +----+----------+----------+
># | Elt|Got       |Expected  |
># +----+----------+----------+
># |   0|id, name  |id, name  |
># *   1|1,  Bob   |2,  Bob   *
># +----+----------+----------+
>
>I dunno if wedging an array-of-hashes into a table is such a hot idea.
>  It looks completely different from any other Perlish way hashes are
> represented.

I bet that would be prettier in a GUI.  We all develop on teletypes, eh?

Perhaps something involving TAP and diagnostics could be used to cause a 
graphical program to run (egads! a graphical program!) on your shiny 
widescreen LCD when prove fails.

(So what if you're running the tests on another machine? -- obviously 
you have a network connection to it, right?)

--Eric
-- 
Introducing change is like pulling off a bandage: the pain is a memory
almost as soon as you feel it.
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