POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : The Language of POV-Ray : Re: The Language of POV-Ray Server Time
11 Aug 2024 13:22:57 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The Language of POV-Ray  
From: Matt Giwer
Date: 13 Mar 2000 01:51:10
Message: <38CC9002.ABA8D9BB@ij.net>
Nieminen Juha wrote:
> 
> Matt Giwer <jul### [at] ijnet> wrote:
> :       Introducing additional syntaxes raises more problems than it
> : solves.
> 
>   I don't think so.
>   A more compact and clearer syntax makes the code more readable and minimizes
> the possibility of errors.
>   For example, suppose you have this:
> 
> #declare XLoopIndex1 = 0;
> #while(XLoopIndex1 < 100)
>   ...
>   (30 lines of code)
>   ...
>   #declare XLoopindex1 = nextValue();
> #end

Make weird_indexname 
mark and copy weird_indexname

<CR><CR>

#declare weird_indexname - weird_indexname + whatever

	Then go back to the <CR><CR> and insert code. One does know what
one intends before writing one hopes. 

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