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.

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