clipka wrote:
> Wouldn't it be nice if the next generation SDL allowed for something like this:
> 
>     sphere { Pos, 7.3 mm }
> 
> or
> 
>     box {
>         -<10in, 7ft, 3ft>, <10in, 7ft, 3ft>
>         rotate y * 1.7rad
>         translate <10yd+3ft, 3ft, 0>
>     }
> 
> or
> 
>     media { absorbtion 0.2/1m }
> 
> or even
> 
>     media { absorbtion 0.2/m }
> 
> or
> 
>     media { absorbtion 0.2m^-1 }
> 
> ?
> 
> 
Are you sure that this feature would not simply add unneeded and 
confusing complexity,
especially in simply dimensions? The ability to define absorotion as you 
suggest might
indeed be useful. But the screen dimension units don't correspond to any 
"real" units and it's
easy enough for the user to adapt them to his own arbitrary units. I'm 
not sure though,
if one now wants to use, say, feet and millimeters with a number of 
objects, the scaling
factor clutter up the code. "Rad" and "deg" for angles and rotation 
*would* be useful.

I suppose thr proposed feature would allow:
sphere{<1ft,2mm,1.5 angstroms>,3nm}

but what about
sphere{<1,2in,3mm>,2}
would that generate and error message? And what might it say?

David

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