"Felix Wiemann" <Fel### [at] gmxnet> wrote in message
news:3c594865@news.povray.org...
> I don't think that it's possible to make the SDL completely OO. OOP is too
> complex to be used in the POV-Ray SDL. An example: When creating an
object,
> several elements must be created: pigment, finish, texture, ... But who
> creates them? Does the user have to call MyObject.add_finish? This
wouldn't
> be logical. An object has a finish, whether it's created by the user or
not.
> POV-Ray had to have a lot of pre-defined classes which provide all those
> features.

That's why you use object constructors :)

> Also, the POV-Ray parser is not very fast. OOP would make parsing even
> slower. Why not creating scenes with an external program (like moray)?
> Although pseudo-OOP would be a good idea (to acces elements like
> MyObject.Part1.finish.phong).

True.  Maybe speed optimizations for the parser?

...Chambers

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