POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: Passing file handles to macros - how?: Re: Passing file handles to macros

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From: Christopher James Huff
Date: 23 Apr 2003 20:29:27
Message: <cjameshuff-6BC681.20292523042003@netplex.aussie.org>

In article <3ea5248e$1@news.povray.org>,
 "Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:

> > My question is: can I pass file handles as parameters to macros, and
> > if yes, how?
> 
> No, because you cannot make copies of file handles for obvious reasons.

Yes, but macro parameters otherwise appear to be handled as references. 
There shouldn't be any copying necessary, and this would be a very 
useful feature.

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