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31 Jul 2024 16:31:21 EDT (-0400)
  Re: POV-Ray Includes - Standards  
From: Ben Chambers
Date: 27 Nov 2006 21:27:53
Message: <456b9ea9$1@news.povray.org>
nemesis wrote:
> heh.  I just realized indeed many people in the povray community use include
> files as some sort of glorified macro, #declares as parameters and several
> #includes of the same file if several "instances" of the same object is
> needed.  And it really makes sense, since macros don't really come with
> local scope... although kludgy...

It's a practice that's carried over from before POV-Ray had macros. 
Surprisingly, after ten years, people still do it...

...Chambers


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