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From: Francois Dispot
Subject: Re: Feature idea: Compile to data file option
Date: 27 Oct 2001 14:28:43
Message: <3BDAFCDA.129905C6@club-internet.fr>
Ron Parker wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2001 23:43:32 GMT, nospam wrote:
> > One other problem, if youy use the technique of having a .pov
> > file write a temp file and then include the just-created temp
> > file, the above method would fail.
> 
> My guess would be that nothing but a full-blown POV parser can predict what
> a POV program will do, and that can only do so by running the program and
> seeing what happens.  I suspect it's quite easy to map this problem to the
> halting problem.

Imagine a script outputting to a file which it includes later...

Turing rulez ;-)
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