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Luke Palmer wrote:
> 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;
Expect wouldn't that produce a extra blank line if $text is short? Or
do follow on blocks automatically do the perl 5 '~' thing? Overflow
blocks as well? Do we need a :option to control that. What if I
want a follow-on or overflow block to not suppress extra blank lines?
--
mark@biggar.org
mark.a.biggar@comcast.net
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