In article <40577b4f@news.povray.org> , Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg>  wrote:

>   Usually if people are printing something with #debug, they want it
> printed immediately. As the name depicts, you use it for debugging
> purposes, not something which requires maximum speed. For debugging
> purposes it may be important to see the printout immediately.
>   I think that the output should be flushed after each #debug. I can't
> think of any useful reason why it wouldn't.

You see the output immediately after a line is complete (or you return the
the beginning of the line).  There is no way to generate consistent and
non-mangled output if every stream goes to the same output device (which
happens more often that not).

    Thorsten

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