Nieminen Juha wrote:

> Axel Baune <aba### [at] neuroinformatikuni-ulmde> wrote:
> : As I've never looked into the Code for the PoV-Parser I' did"t know
> : exactly, but I've already written a parser of my own for my programms,
> : and therefore I know what effects it would have on my own parser if I
> : wish to include the new syntax. From this knowledge I've extrapolated to
> : the PoV-Parser.
>
>   Perhaps you didn't do it the right way ;)
>
>   Using something like yacc and lex makes it quite easy to add new syntax.
> Although povray doesn't use them, it might use something similar (I really
> don't know).

Well, using something like XML rules would make it much easier to parse.
Unfortunately POV-Ray's language and parser are not designed quite that way.
After the change for 4.0, maybe it will end up a little more extensible.

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