On 20-1-2016 21:03, clipka wrote:
> Am 20.01.2016 um 19:30 schrieb Leroy:

>> But I thought POV team encouraged people to use .mac or something like that for
>> marcos.
>
> Nope; never heard of those for ages, and those extensions are not
> actively encouraged. As a matter of fact I didn't even know POV-Ray for
> Windows had any particular support for those extensions, until Dirk
> mentioned it just now and I searched through the source code in an
> (obviously failed) attempt to prove him wrong.
>
> It's certainly a legacy thing. Besides the Windows editor file open
> dialog, there is no reference to "mcr" as a file extension in the entire
> POV-Ray project, and as for "mac" I didn't bother to investigate because
> the word pops up much more frequently for probably obvious reasons.
>

That is interesting and I am surprised. I generally use .mcr for macros, 
with the impression that this was a POV-Ray team suggestion. It 
certainly did not exist or was used before version 3.6, iirc. I don't 
know who started its use then in a "formal" way.

-- 
Thomas

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