POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : How about $ for declare? : Re: How about $ for declare? Server Time
2 Aug 2024 18:10:20 EDT (-0400)
  Re: How about $ for declare?  
From: Samuel Benge
Date: 13 Aug 2004 18:57:36
Message: <411D46BF.4050809@hotmail.com>
Rafal 'Raf256' Maj wrote:

> chr### [at] gmxde news:cfjc1l$vh2$1@chho.imagico.de
> 
> 
>>other keyword with the shortest unique abbreviation - but no one could 
>>read the code any more then.
>>
> 
> Btw, how about adding some shorten forms for long and often used keywords, 
> it could spedd up typing and comforable level of hand-typing .pov code, 
> like

Better yet, why not have the ability to make new #aliases for keywords. 
Something like this:

#alias sphere=sph;

sph{ <0,0,0>, 10 pigment{White} }

-Sam


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