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 '{<<<}: {<<<<<<<<<<<<…}', $label, $text, '{…<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<…}', $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; LukeThread Previous | Thread Next