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13 Aug 2024 09:30:57 EDT (-0400)
  Re: trace() function feature req  
From: root
Date: 19 Nov 1998 23:24:11
Message: <3654eeeb.0@news.povray.org>
In article <3654B0CB.BFF188F2@flash.net>, Dan Connelly wrote:
>This is a good idea.  The simplest generalization would be
>for a vector to have its components logically or'ed when used
>in a boolean context.... I don't know how distributed through 
>the code is the logical evaluation of parameters, but I suspect
>this could be done in a compact fashion (wherever the error is generated,
>a conversion could be done instead).

The problem with this is, you want to or them for != and and them
for =.  You have to actually do the conversion a bit further down
the parse tree, but I've already figured out how it is to be done.


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