hi,

"Tor Olav Kristensen" <tor### [at] TOBEREMOVEDgmailcom> wrote:
> "jr" <cre### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> > ...
> You don't have to know a lot about the parser. You only have to pay attention to
> what the macros "insert" or "leave behind".
>
> The fore_call macro inserts two items: a call to the fore_exec macro and the
> number 1.
>
> And the call to the fore_exec macro inserts the contents of the parse_fore.tmp
> file, which is this: bigSphere(7,a_[7])
>
> That call to the bigSphere macro again calls the mkSphere macro, which inserts
> the sphere { } statement.
>
> Now the resulting if statement looks somewhat like this:
>
> #if (! sphere { } 1)
>
> - and that's not good...

:-)

seriously though, thank you for this clear outline of "events".  excellent.  I
seem to think too much in terms of (conventional) function/procedure when using
SDL.  (time for coffee + thinking cap :-))


regards, jr.

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