In article <38CBCC8D.CA8FB7CB@pacbell.net>, lin### [at] povrayorg 
wrote:

> See item two below but the rest is worthy of note as well

> 2) We will eventually write a separate utility or an optional feature 
> in POV-Ray itself to translate (as much as possible) a version 1.0, 
> 2.x or 3.0 scene into 3.1 scene and to possibly unroll loops, resolve 
> conditionals and expand macros.  This will allow you to create a much 
> more easy-to-parse scene.

Yes, the CSDL translator would be very similar to this, although it 
wouldn't use older versions of POV for input, but a new language. It 
could probably be made to parse much faster than POV, because it would 
be dedicated to one job(translation) and wouldn't have to support older 
versions of the language, and would be designed from the start as a 
programming language(instead of having those capabilities added on 
later).

-- 
Chris Huff
e-mail: chr### [at] yahoocom
Web page: http://chrishuff.dhs.org/

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