In article <38cbe304@news.povray.org>, Nieminen Juha 
<war### [at] sarakerttunencstutfi> wrote:

> "classes will make CSDL too complicated", and so on and so on.

Actually, I just don't think they are needed. In the syntax I am working 
on, there would be an "object" type, which could be a sphere, box, 
cylinder, or whatever. This "object" could also have attached variables 
and functions. Copies of this object would get copies of the variables 
and access to the same functions, similar to inheritance, and you could 
add overriding functions to the copies. You could get something close to 
a class by using a "union" to hold the variables and functions. The main 
difference is that actual objects are manipulated instead of types, a 
separate "class" type doesn't seem necessary.
It is still object-oriented, but in a different way that makes Java and 
C++ look more like "object-type oriented".


>   Perhaps a set of C++-libraries to make easier to create pov-files would 
> be good.

A set of C++ classes which are freely available would be very useful in 
developing many utilities. I have a 3d vector class which I might 
donate...but this doesn't fill the same purpose CSDL would.

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

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