In article <4709033b@news.povray.org>, 
nic### [at] gmailisthebestcom says...

> > Nicolas Alvarez <nic### [at] gmailisthebestcom> wrote:
> >> Another is "changing a 
> >> previously-defined translate" (that's not currently possible in SDL, a
nd 
> >> it's a bad idea anyway).
> > 
> >   Somehow I feel you are a bit talking about apples and oranges here.
> > 
> >   Of course there's no way of "changing a previously defined translate"
> > because there's no such thing as a "previously defined translate". As I
> > said in the other post, a translation is not a property of the object,
> > it's an operation applied to the object (in other words, in object-orie
nted
> > terms, a translation is not a member variable of the object, it's a mem
ber
> > function). You either apply it (so that it has some effect) or you don'
t.
> > You can't go "back in time" and apply it in a different way once you ha
ve
> > applied it already.
> > 
> >   (Technically speaking you can later apply a new set of transformation
s
> > which cancel out the earlier translation, so the effect is the same as 
if
> > the earlier translation had not been performed at all, but this is a
> > rather different thing at a basic conceptual level.)
> > 
> >   I can't really see what is the problem people are seeing here. I don'
t
> > see any problem in objects in the new SDL having transformation functio
ns
> > which work in the same way as in the current SDL.
> > 
> 
> I was just commenting on Patrick's examples which showed changing 
> individual transformations, stored in some sort of array. So we are 
> agreeing. The way transformations should work is the way they currently d
o.
> 
Sigh. Ok, you might not have read the post I made later. Seems it got 
caught in the damn outbox of the usenet client I use, which won't bloody 
send until after it "rechecks" all the groups on a server. Sometimes I 
hate this program, but given I have yet to find one that acts close to 
the same and didn't have even more irritating issues...

-- 
void main () {

    call functional_code()
  else
    call crash_windows();
}

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