Thorsten Froehlich <fro### [at] charliecnsiitedu> wrote:
>In article <365### [at] peakeduee> , Margus Ramst <mar### [at] peakeduee>  wrote:

>> I don't know if this is a bug or not, but it I can't redefine a
>> single component of a vector with dot operators, i.e.:
>>
>> #declare Vector = <0,0,0>;
>> #declare Vector.x = 5; //This sort of operation gives an error
>>
>> I would expect it to result in <5,0,0>
>> I know this can be worked around, but I don't see why it should be illegal.
>
>Thats simple: Its not in the language definition!

Abstracting further:

Is a #define just macro substitution, like in C, or is it an
actual assignment operator?

  -Rich

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