Aligning code in columns

[Alan Ghelardi <alan.ghelardi@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello everyone.

I was wondering whether there is some facility in Emacs/Emacspeak to 
align certain code chunks in columns. Let me describe a scenario that 
I'm thinking about. I work with Clojure and in my company we use a test 
framework called Midje. This framework has a feature called tabular 
tests which offers a syntax sugar to write unit tests that exercise the 
same function invocation with different inputs and outputs, by 
organizing them in a tabular structure. Follows an example:
(tabular (fact "about the function +"
(+ ?a ?b) => ?c)
?a ?b ?c
1 1 2
2 3 5
6 1 7)

This framework takes the forms that start with a question mark and 
substitutes them in the corresponding placeholders in the form under 
test. However, leaving Midje aside, sighted engineers are used to align 
the values in the rows of the "table" above in the same columns in order 
to obtain the visual aspect of a table. While this is totally irrelevant 
for blind developers, if possible I'd like to obtain the same behavior 
(if Emacs provides such facility out of the box) in order to make my 
code more readable for my sighted colleagues.

Let me know whether my question isn't clear enough.

Best regards.

Alan Ghelardi