Am 23.11.2011 17:43, schrieb jkroby:

> -It would be possible to introduce the namespace in the script?

I guess the next SDL will have such a thing.

> -Would it be possible to have the regular-expression? perl style so to speak.

I don't think so. String processing is not really a must-have core 
functionality for a raytracing software, and regex parsing is a pretty 
complex matter.

> -As an alternative or parallel to the request of regular-expression can use a
> command-style exec to invoke a script that performs operations on strings so
> advanced. So you can create external scripts that come to the aid of povray
> script.

That might be a more viable alternative; invoking external tools as part 
of the scene set-up process, with the ability of using results from 
earlier steps of the set-up, would also allow for such things as 
sampling a complex CSG or isosurface object via trace() or inside(), 
feeding this data to a fast C programm for processing, and finally 
generating additional geometry based on the results.

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