POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : feature request (regarding &,|) : Re: feature request (regarding &,|) Server Time
8 Aug 2024 22:08:09 EDT (-0400)
  Re: feature request (regarding &,|)  
From: Margus Ramst
Date: 17 Nov 2000 19:15:31
Message: <3A15CA5E.DC4C415C@peak.edu.ee>
Chris Huff wrote:
> 
> If that extremely_long_calculation sets up some variables for later use,
> not evaluating it could lead to obscure bugs in scene files.

Hmm. Are there many likely scenarios of this happening?
Granted, a macro invoked in a conditional could #declare variables needed later
in the code; but creating necessary variables like this is very bad form IMO, as
is (generally) using #declare in a macro to set up global variables.

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Margus Ramst

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