POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Request: new simple pattern : Re: Request: new simple pattern Server Time
8 Aug 2024 20:21:53 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Request: new simple pattern  
From: David Fontaine
Date: 12 Jan 2001 22:33:53
Message: <3A5FCB7A.EAE7788B@faricy.net>
Rune wrote:

> Why don't you just take the full step and remove all build-in solid patterns
> from POV-Ray. Or maybe preserve them for backward-compatibility, but at
> least generate a warning when used.
>
> That would be the logical extension of the philosophy that no new patterns,
> no matter how general useful and powerful they are, can be added to POV-Ray.

Not as logical; backwards compatibility should try to be maintained. There has
to be some degree of permanence when these decisions are made. But that doesn't
mean it's too late to change future additions.

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David Fontaine  <dav### [at] faricynet>  ICQ 55354965
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