Rune <run### [at] inamecom> 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.

  You are taking it to the extreme without reason.

  The point was that why implement in source code a pattern which can be
easily done with a macro, when it only would cause more problems than benefits?
A macro is just as easy to use as a builtin pattern and it has many advantages.

  However, not every pattern can be done with a macro (at least not with
the current megapov functions). For example mandel.

-- 
char*i="b[7FK@`3NB6>B:b3O6>:B:b3O6><`3:;8:6f733:>::b?7B>:>^B>C73;S1";
main(_,c,m){for(m=32;c=*i++-49;c&m?puts(""):m)for(_=(
c/4)&7;putchar(m),_--?m:(_=(1<<(c&3))-1,(m^=3)&3););}    /*- Warp -*/

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