POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Status of Moray? : Re: New SDL for POVRay Server Time
2 Jul 2025 02:26:15 EDT (-0400)
  Re: New SDL for POVRay  
From: Darren New
Date: 14 Oct 2007 13:18:04
Message: <47124f4c@news.povray.org>
Patrick Elliott wrote:
> No semantic difference, just associative.

In other words, you don't like the syntax.

> And when you are dealing with 
> objects that is often more important than semantics. 

I'm not sure what's more important about a programming language than 
knowing what the constructs mean.

But given that, now we're just arguing over syntax. That makes things a 
lot more clear.

> Semantically they are **identical**, associatively they are 
> **completely** different.

On the other hand, if you could do the latter and not the former, you'd 
have a much more limited language.

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     Remember the good old days, when we
     used to complain about cryptography
     being export-restricted?


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