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  Re: Any way to avoid repeated parsing?  
From: Ron Parker
Date: 21 Sep 1999 12:39:05
Message: <37e7b4a9@news.povray.org>
On Tue, 21 Sep 1999 18:24:40 +0200, Tomas Plachetka wrote:
>Now I can't think of a better example...
>Uhm. Never mind, I have a more conceptual question:
>How do you define an object which is defined in the 
>second frame (or 51th frame if you want) and does 
>not change (persists) till the end of the animation? 
>I think you cannot. (Nor can I.) In other words,
>#static will not allow you to insert any static objects
>in any other frame except of the first one. Right?

Right.  Presumably you could extend it to #static (start,end) 
which would mean the contents of the block are static for clock 
values between start and end.


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