On 30 Jan 2002 15:19:27 -0500, Warp wrote:
> Christopher James Huff <chr### [at] maccom> wrote:
>: The POV Team has said they were rewriting it in C++. Actually, the 
>: current source implements a kind of OOP, it is just hard to manage.
>: The scripting...it could be argued that it is already OOP
> 
>   It maybe modular, but it certainly is not object-oriented.
>   Two basic requirements for object-orientedness are inheritance and dynamic
> binding. Without those you just have a modular language, not object-oriented.

I assume you're referring to the claim that POV SDL is OO here.  The POV
source, though written mostly in C, could be said to have both inheritance
and dynamic binding.

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#macro R(L P)sphere{L F}cylinder{L P F}#end#macro P(V)merge{R(z+a z)R(-z a-z)R(a
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P(z+a)P(z-a)R(-z-z-x a)pigment{rgbt 1}hollow interior{media{emission T}}finish{
reflection.1}}#end Z(-x-x.2y)Z(-x-x.4x)camera{location z*-10rotate x*90}

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