On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 19:12:28 -0000, Alan Holding wrote:
> Pardon me for speaking out of turn, because most of the people contributing
> to this thread seem pretty on the ball with their languages, but doesn't POV
> has a basic sort of inheritance anyway?

Yes, sort of, but not in the way you use the term when speaking of OO.  
POV can't have inheritance because it doesn't really have classes, and 
you can't talk about inheritance without using the notion of a class.

-- 
#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
-z-z-z a+z)torus{1F clipped_by{plane{a 0}}}translate V}#end#macro Z(a F T)merge{
P(z+a)P(z-a)R(-z-z-x a)pigment{rgbf 1}hollow interior{media{emission 3-T}}}#end 
Z(-x-x.2x)camera{location z*-10rotate x*90normal{bumps.02scale.05}}

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