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  Re: Scope of identifiers in nested Macros  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 3 Jan 2004 08:43:53
Message: <3ff6c719$1@news.povray.org>
In article <Xns### [at] netplexaussieorg> , ingo 
<ing### [at] tagpovrayorg>  wrote:

> Why not throw the # away completely?

Because then you could no longer distinguish parse-time processing from
render-time processing, which would close the door for many possible future
features.  And it would make parsing infinitly more complex (from a runtime
complexity perspective).

    Thorsten

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