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29 Jul 2024 08:20:48 EDT (-0400)
  Re: recursively defined objects and memory  
From: Bald Eagle
Date: 14 Aug 2013 11:00:01
Message: <web.520b9a75e896405b73fc9ebb0@news.povray.org>
> - Macros are /always/ evaluated during parsing.

I guess I didn't say or mean to imply that they weren't.

> - Functions may be evaluated either during parsing or during rendering,
> depending on the context in which they are used.

And those contexts are?
Function outside of a macro only at parse time, function inside a macro during
parse and render?

Eventually I WILL flowchart this out and do something to explain this with SDL
and graphics, for both my own edification as well as for the benefit of others.


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