On Thu, 1 Jan 1998 08:51:12 +0100, "Johannes Hubert"
<jht### [at] nove-mailcom> wrote:

>Wide Grin.
>
>I must agree with Jon. There wouldn't be much reason for a JAVA-POV to look
>exactly like the old POV, would there? Why would someone want to use it
>then, better to stick to the original...

Because I see no sense in typing 'add new whatever' when you can
substitute it with whatever java has as pre-compiler macro or define.
I understand that it would be great to be able to extract or change
the object properties (like camera.lookAt) but I don't think it would
be a good idea to altogether lose the old syntax. OTOH, if what I am
saying is not possible in java, that's ok.

How about making the necessary extensions to the POV Language and
writing a Java or Perl parser to convert that syntax to standard POV
syntax? This will have the advantage of keeping old syntax while
easily adding new.


Peter Popov
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