In article <3ea98bfb@news.povray.org>,
 "Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:

> As you can see, you are looking for complications where there are none. It
> is ready for use already, and it will be standard compliant once there is
> the new standard out.  Nevertheless, it is as close to the standard as any
> implementation can be given that it is the reference implementation ;-)

I'm saying there isn't a complication where you say there is one.


> > But it isn't part of the current standard, and if/when it is
> > standardized, it will take some time to be widely implemented. None of
> > this is a good reason for waiting for it to become standardized and
> > widely implemented...if anything, it is a reason not to do so.
> 
> Sorry, you lost me here...

Better file handling needs reference counting. Current STL doesn't have 
anything to help with reference counting. Future STL standards that may 
are irrelevant, they aren't here yet. There are current implementations 
of what will probably be in the next standard, and a custom version 
would be trivial. Reference counting is no barrier to better file 
handling in the POV-Ray SDL.

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