POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : The Language of POV-Ray : Re: The Language of POV-Ray Server Time
11 Aug 2024 07:17:33 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The Language of POV-Ray  
From: Nieminen Juha
Date: 12 Mar 2000 08:06:04
Message: <38cb963b@news.povray.org>
Axel Baune <aba### [at] neuroinformatikuni-ulmde> wrote:
: From the viewpoint of a computer scientist (I'm one) this is a not a
: syntactically correct defiend for-loop. The variable of a for-loop
: belongs to the for-command and should be never _changable_ by the user. 

  Is there some reason to prevent the user from changing the loop index?
Why should flexibility of the language be delimited?

  As with all features: You don't have to use it if you don't want to. The
fact that a feature exists doesn't mean you have to use it.

-- 
main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/


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