Method code for $list._vcolumnize()

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  1: arg list, lines, cols, width, @other;
  2: var outlist, line, i, j, sep;
  3: 
  4: [(sep ?= " ")] = other;
  5: width -= sep.length();
  6: lines = lines > list.length() ? list.length() : lines;
  7: outlist = [];
  8: for i in [1 .. lines] {
  9:     line = list[i].pad(width);
 10:     for j in [1 .. cols]
 11:         (| (line = line + sep + list[i + j * lines].pad(width)) |);
 12:     outlist += [line.trim('right)];
 13: }
 14: return outlist;

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// Created 27-Mar-1995 as a part of ColdCore, see: @help Credit