[Jprogramming] Faster deb

[Ian Clark]

I like that way of temporarily padding the ends with extra spaces to
mop up any already there.

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 2:12 AM, Roger Hui <rogerhui.canada at gmail.com> wrote:
>   dbx=: #~ -.@('  '&E.)
>   db=: dbx&.(,&' ')&.(' '&,)
>
>   x=: 'the   better angels  of   our  nature'
>
>   '>',(db x),'<'
>>the better angels of our nature<
>   '>',(db ' ',x),'<'
>>the better angels of our nature<
>   '>',(db x,' '),'<'
>>the better angels of our nature<
>   '>',(db ' ',x,' '),'<'
>>the better angels of our nature<
>
>   '>',(db '     '),'<'
>><
>   '>',(db ''),'<'
>><
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