In article <3e906045@news.povray.org>,
 "Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:

> Yes.  Remember light groups?  They implemented something similar alien to
> the language.

I vaguely remember. I haven't done much with either version of that 
patch, but I recall the original one using string labels, and the new 
one didn't, which I considered an improvement.


> Sure, but you would need to extend several parts of the language to do it
> properly ... there are simply things you cannot do without ugly hacks in the
> 3.x implementation of POV-Ray.  This is one of them.  And rather than a
> hack, not doing it is the responsible choice.

Out of curiousity, what hacks are you thinking of? I can't think of any 
difficulties offhand, but I haven't tried to actually implement it.

One thing that might be worth considering is a standardized grouping 
syntax, something that can be used for light groups, post process 
filters, and anything else that could benefit. Is this the type of thing 
you're talking about?

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