In article <3a18fc06@news.povray.org>, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> 
wrote:

>   I see many reasons to add something that has so many benefits although
> it might rarely sometimes cause some confusion.

What benefits? A small parsing speedup every once in a while, and more 
rarely a fairly large speed improvement. And this can already be 
accomplished by using a slightly different structure with the current 
language, by nesting the conditionals.

Oh, and it lets you write nicely obfuscated code that doesn't do what it 
appears to do, like this:

#if(ACondition & DoSomething()) #end

which would really be the same as this:

#if(ACondition)
    DoSomething()
#end

So, no real benefits, since what it does can easily be done manually 
already, and it adds possible confusion.

-- 
Christopher James Huff
Personal: chr### [at] maccom, http://homepage.mac.com/chrishuff/
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