Had the same thing happen to me when I was at Uni suddenly nice detailed circuit diagrams become red X's...solved it by separating each chapter and importing and printing from there mind you that was with Office XP haven't they figured out how to fix that... :confused:

Thanks for the comment. The whole idea of trying a new language is mostly a reaction to having to use PowerShell at work, which is the only language I have used that I actively hate and actually believe is destroying my brain cells.

For every feature, there is usually a reason behind it. Now I wonder if that feature was driven by the developer that worded the text, or if the designers were instructed by a long chain of management that was related to QA, or developer group forums that were tired of pointing out: "Before you can run your program, it must compile..."

It's Scala actually and both Forogar and PIEBALDconsult are right about the function purpose. It is taken from a small example that reads a text file and prints it out displaying each line's length before it and the function makes sure that all lines are aligned/tabulated correctly.

jschell wrote: a framework that can have new modules added Now this looks better than messing with scripting engine since Java classes are available to Groovy, Jython and jruby (maybe javascript too?)