While not strictly necessary, it would be nice to have a C style "for" loop.
I've toyed around with the idea of implimneting it as a macro, but the
deliniators tend to get in the way.  Has anyone already done this?  If not
I'll keep working on my own.

JFMILLER

"Christopher James Huff" <chr### [at] maccom> wrote in message
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> In article <3d6246b5@news.povray.org>,
>  "Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
>
> > >   I don't. #break and #continue would be useful inside loops. Without
them
> > > you have to make kludges which make parsing slower.
> >
> > Not with properly designed algorithms ;-)
>
> I have occasionally found break useful, but rarely...I've never needed
> either one in POV. And I've never had to use continue.
> In some cases I think using them is a good thing, I don't consider them
> a forbidden statement like goto. You just need to be sure you need them,
> and I don't think their absence is a problem for POV. Same as for and
> do-while loops: would be nice but isn't necessary.
>
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