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6 Sep 2024 13:17:22 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Really strange design choices  
From: nemesis
Date: 17 Dec 2008 14:27:54
Message: <494952ba$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible escreveu:
> For example, PostScript involves "dictionaries". A dictionary stores 
> key/value pairs. The key will usually be a "name" object. However, 
> reading the small-print, I discover that a key can *actually* be any 
> possible PostScript object.
> 
> So, for example, you can push the current graphics state onto the 
> operand stack and use THE ENTIRE GRAPHICS STATE as a key! o_O

Are you sure it's not a hash/id for THE ENTIRE GRAPHICS STATE rather 
than it itself?


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