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=head1 UNDER THE HOOD

To fill in the shape of the spider, we inserted whitespace,
semi-colons, sharps, and maybe the occasional C<{> C<}> pair
into the original code. Certain blocks of text, like
C<print>, C<while>, and C<y#_ # _#> are kept intact since
splitting them would cause the program to either fail to
compile or to behave differently. 

The ASCII Artinator tokenizes the code and
does its best to identify 

=over 4

=item 1. Character strings that must not be divided

These include alphanumeric literals, quoted strings,
and most regular expressions.

=item 2. Places in the code where it is OK to insert padding.

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=over 4

=item * Have a concept of "grayspace" in the artwork. These are positions where
we can put either whitespace or a character from the code, whichever makes it
easier to align the code.

=back

=over 4

=item * Optionally implement some "best practices" automatically to make the code
more flexible without changing its behavior.

=back

=head1 BUGS

Probably lots.

=head1 SEE ALSO