"Christopher James Huff" <cja### [at] earthlinknet> wrote in message
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> In article <4060aa7f@news.povray.org>,
>  "Chambers" <bdc### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> > Structures would be useful in and of themselves, but that's another
topic.
>
> Not entirely. I mentioned it because it would put all the parse code in
> one place, doing one thing: accessing members of structures, rather than
> scattered throughout all the object parsing code. Objects would parse to
> these structures, and later be converted to the internal form for actual
> rendering. It still adds complexity, but gets rid of several problems at
> once.


So you're saying that objects themselves would be declared as structures,
and then the rendering engine would read information from these structures?
That *would* simplify access to per-object info, but I'm not sure about the
effect it would have on SDL.  Wouldn't the SDL need reworking?

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...Chambers
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