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6 Aug 2024 08:11:05 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Round_Box #macro (in shapes.inc) and negative values  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 22 Apr 2002 14:11:16
Message: <3CC45243.AC4824D1@gmx.de>
Felix Wiemann wrote:
> 
> > The modeller should take care of this itself.
> 
> An if it doesn't? :)

Don't blame POV-Ray.

> Of course it's not clear what's the resulting object, but why not
> dropping it *with a warning*, so the user is noticed that something may
> go wrong? What's the problem with that? Isn't that better than stopping
> with an error?

Having no object may cause secondary problems.  What if the the code uses
things like trace() or min/max_extend() and relies on reasonable results?

Christoph

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