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13 Aug 2024 17:27:35 EDT (-0400)
  Re: How recursive are #macros ?  
From: Peter Popov
Date: 1 Oct 1998 22:36:35
Message: <36142e23.0@news.povray.org>
Scott Hill wrote in message <01bde307$ced53f40$8c00a8c0@shindo>...
> Neither are dumb nor useless, granted you can usually achieve the same
>effect in a non-recursive or non-nested matter, but there are some
>algorithms that are a nightmare to implement non-recursively, and nested
>macros would be ideal in situations where you wanted to define a macro that
>was only 'in-scope' for the duration of the parent macro.


I meant my examples were dumb and useless, not #macros . Hey, I like them so
much I already got addicted to them and am rewriting all my .inc files for
3.1

>--
>Scott Hill
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>
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>
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>

Peter


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