"Christopher James Huff" wrote:
> Tell me, what is the difference between specifying the
> initial size and specifying the "exact amount of points"?

You're right, in effect it's the same thing. So I don't know why you
requested it when it was already there, and I had made it pretty clear that
it was indeed possible.

> And do you have any reasons not to let the user change
> the default step size? Adding this ability would just
> take making it a separate variable instead of hard-coding it.

It's simply pointless. Either memory is an issue for a spline, or else it
isn't.

If it's not an issue you don't have to care about the step sizes.

In the few cases where memory is an issue, you must have a rough idea of how
big your spline is and then you should just set the number of points
accordingly or a little higher so you're sure there are enough available
elements.

It's just easier to tell the macro how many points your spline has rather
than telling it which approach it should take at guessing how many points
there are. There's no point in going the long way round.

Rune
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