Is there some kind of FAQ for this kind of thing
#if's here and #end's there somewhere, or is it
located somewhere in an advanced part of the
documentation? These kind of issues (like, I
don't know, parsing, macro vs functions etc) seem
to interest many people, once they get there. I doubt
that some newbie (unless with programming experience)
would ask these sort of questions, but some of those
that actually script more "plugins" than actually tracing
images seem to run into this every now and then in
order to optimize their plugins.

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Tim Nikias
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> > Doesn't POV-Ray run through the file, in case it might
> > find the appropriate #end in the file? Thats what I thought,
> > and what, IIRC, someone has mentioned somewhere
> > some time ago on this very server.
>
>   No. POV-Ray does not open the include file if it's inside a block which
> is not being executed.
>   And yes, this means that an #if (or any other command terminating with #end)
> cannot be located in one file and its corresponding #end in another.
>
> --
> #macro M(A,N,D,L)plane{-z,-9pigment{mandel L*9translate N color_map{[0rgb x]
> [1rgb 9]}scale<D,D*3D>*1e3}rotate y*A*8}#end M(-3<1.206434.28623>70,7)M(
> -1<.7438.1795>1,20)M(1<.77595.13699>30,20)M(3<.75923.07145>80,99)// - Warp -

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