POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : while () { while () {}} doesn't work propertly. : Re: while () { while () {}} doesn't work propertly. Server Time
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  Re: while () { while () {}} doesn't work propertly.  
From: Eitan Tal
Date: 25 Sep 2001 16:48:17
Message: <3BB0ECD5.8795E493@netvision.net.il>
Trevor Quayle wrote:

> You need to redeclare cGreen as 0 again at the end of the cGreen loop to
> reset it back to 0

Oh, Right! I'm sorry I bothered you!
I completely forgot about it, thanks!
...It is very hard to work without a debugger, isn't it?

>

>
>
> -tgq
>
> "Eitan Tal" <eit### [at] netvisionnetil> wrote in message
> news:3BB0E68B.B75F68DB@netvision.net.il...
> > It looks like it ignores the first while.
> > Take a look at this:
> > #declare cRed=0
> > #declare cGreen=0
> >
> > #while (cRed < 1)
> >     #while (cGreen < 1)
> >         sphere {<cRed*2.5,cGreen*2.5, 0>, 0.2 pigment {color rgb <cRed,
> > cGreen, 0>}}
> >         #declare cGreen=cGreen+0.1
> >     #end
>
>         #declare cGreen=0  // add this
>
> >     #declare cRed=cRed+0.1
> > #end
> >
> > It only makes 10 objects (this is what written in Messages)
> > and cRed always = 0. it looks like it only supports one #while.
> >
> > possible (and easy) to do a workaround using mod (modulo, % in c++)
> > possible (but annoying) to do with a switch. do I have to use the
> > switch? or maybe it was fixed in a newer version? I'm running here
> > #version 3.1
> >
> > BTW: I don't like the ; semicolon after #declare. it seems so wrong for
> > me, because it is a #directive that goes to the compiler. on C++, it
> > will Not have ; semicolon.
> >


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