I don't think that it's possible to make the SDL completely OO. OOP is too
complex to be used in the POV-Ray SDL. An example: When creating an object,
several elements must be created: pigment, finish, texture, ... But who
creates them? Does the user have to call MyObject.add_finish? This wouldn't
be logical. An object has a finish, whether it's created by the user or not.
POV-Ray had to have a lot of pre-defined classes which provide all those
features.
Also, the POV-Ray parser is not very fast. OOP would make parsing even
slower. Why not creating scenes with an external program (like moray)?
Although pseudo-OOP would be a good idea (to acces elements like
MyObject.Part1.finish.phong).

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