clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> So maybe a suitable syntax would be:

>      #macro Foo(...)
>        ...
>      #end
>      #fast_macro Foo

> where "#fast_macro IDENTIFIER" would cause the parser to retrieve the 
> specified macro into memory.

  Maybe I'm being stubborn here, but I still can't understand the need
for such a keyword. What would be the problem in *always* having all
macros as "fast"?

> I'd also suggest not to store the content of the macro literally, but 
> rather in an already tokenized form, as I guess this would speed up 
> things even a bit more.

  This going towards a byte-compiled VM (much like the user-defined
functions), which is what has been the suggestion for POV-Ray 4 for
a long time...

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