"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
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> Pandora <pan### [at] pandora-softwarecom> wrote:
> >     Writing your own templated min/max functions could be seen as a
> > 'workaround'...
>
>   A workaround for what? If it works perfectly, with absolutely no
> compromises, how is it a workaround?
>

    It's a workaround because the POV source code is not C++ code, it's C
code. Any true solution to the problem should work on any given _C_
compiler. Unfortunately there are no true solutions to this problem, only
workarounds - either use carefully declared and used macros or a C++
compiler and templated functions - both workarounds in the context of the
POV source code.

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Pandora/Scott Hill/[::O:M:C::]Scorpion
Software Engineer.
http://www.pandora-software.com

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