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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? -- mark@biggar.org mark.a.biggar@comcast.netThread Previous | Thread Next