In article <ne7vnuc47tqp5jpdqfn51nttlis14agp54@4ax.com>,
 ABX <abx### [at] abxartpl> wrote:

> But I can include only necessary files so can optimize parsing time.

Still, including one file is probably more overhead than adding all the 
keywords contained in a couple files.


> > Requiring an external include file.
> So many languages use header files with definitions so nothing new.

So does POV, functions.inc. It is annoying though, confusing to newbies, 
and slower than a built-in keyword.


> > Heh, implementing it in the current POV would take a huge amount of 
> > work. I'm mainly thinking of it as something to be considered for the 
> > 4.0 rewrite.
> 
> chicken ;-)

;-)
I will be looking at it...I'm just busy with school and lots of other 
personal projects. (the CSDL/Sapphire language, Lumini raytracer, 3D 
math and color-image libraries, a VR engine, a few others...)


> > I did something similar for Sapphire: when a 
> > symbol is resolved it moves to the front of the symbol table.
> 
> Any reference ? You mean http://sapphire.sourceforge.net/ ? 

No, I was talking about my CSDL project:
http://home.earthlink.net/~cjameshuff/csdl/csdl.html

It's a language I created, I'm using it to control the raytracer and VR 
engine. That's an old version though...I'll release a new one fairly 
soon.

The acronym seemed clumsy and a bit inappropriate, since the language is 
useful for more than simulations. I like sapphires, and it fit in with 
the Perl, Ruby, ... sequence. I didn't know there was a window manager 
with that name...

-- 
Christopher James Huff <cja### [at] earthlinknet>
http://home.earthlink.net/~cjameshuff/
POV-Ray TAG: chr### [at] tagpovrayorg
http://tag.povray.org/

Post a reply to this message