POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.pov4.discussion.general : Parse Strings : Re: Parse Strings Server Time
8 May 2024 22:53:00 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Parse Strings  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 24 Oct 2007 17:14:29
Message: <471fb5b5$1@news.povray.org>

> Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>> Chambers <bdc### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
>>> Can we please parse strings?
>>   With the current parser the answer is basically no. Too difficult to
>> implement.
> 
> It's a good thing that we're not discussing the current parser, then :)
> 
> Anyway, my request isn't based on how easy or hard it would be to implement,
> but rather on how useful it would be to me.  In the past year, I've run
> across more and more situations where I would want this.
> 
> 

Name some. Maybe we don't need an eval()-like function, what we need is 
other features so that we never ever need to use eval.


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