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From: Andrea Ryan
Subject: Re: POV 4.0 Wish List
Date: 4 Sep 2001 23:48:30
Message: <3B959DF7.92FFE3C@global2000.net>
> The beauty of the standard macro collection is that you simply include the
> file and the functions act just like built in keywords. They are basically
> transparent to the user and offer the added benifit that if the function
> does not work as you want it to you modify it until it does. That is
> something you cannot do with built in features :)

What about looking at the pov sources?  POV script is easier to use than
C, so having macros makes more sense.
Brendan


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From: Dave Dunn
Subject: Re: POV 4.0 Wish List
Date: 5 Sep 2001 11:00:55
Message: <3B963E4E.119B74D0@aol.com>
Ken wrote:

> The beauty of the standard macro collection is that you simply include the
> file and the functions act just like built in keywords. They are basically
> transparent to the user and offer the added benifit that if the function
> does not work as you want it to you modify it until it does. That is
> something you cannot do with built in features :)

Okay, you've convinced me. Now that the Beta is out, I can see for myself. I had
overlooked the benefits of tweaking the existing macros, although I do it all the
time, heh heh. I guess where I was going is that, for something as simple as
rotate_to, you would save a whole keystroke typing "rotate_to <1,2,3>" over
RotateTo(<1,2,3>)... I'll go back to my dark corner and be quiet now.


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From: Ken
Subject: Re: POV 4.0 Wish List
Date: 5 Sep 2001 21:40:42
Message: <3B96D4FA.F030F3E7@pacbell.net>
Dave Dunn wrote:

> Okay, you've convinced me. Now that the Beta is out, I can see for myself. I had
> overlooked the benefits of tweaking the existing macros, although I do it all the
> time, heh heh. I guess where I was going is that, for something as simple as
> rotate_to, you would save a whole keystroke typing "rotate_to <1,2,3>" over
> RotateTo(<1,2,3>)... I'll go back to my dark corner and be quiet now.

Don't get me wrong. It took me a while to buy into it as well. Once
I understood how flexible they were I shut up and excepted it too :)

-- 
Ken Tyler


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