Stefan Viljoen <rylan@ wrote:
> Hi guys
> 
> Megapov 0.7 (I heard) had $ instead of #declare...
> 
> What is the reason why this wasn't implemented in official Pov 3.1 or 3.5?
> 

It leads to awfully obfuscated code.  When designing a new language the 
idea to leave away the #declare (or whatever else) completely is 
reasonable.  But if it is required replacing it with a single character 
is not a good idea.  With the same arguments you could replace every 
other keyword with the shortest unique abbreviation - but no one could 
read the code any more then.

Christoph

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