Op 5-4-2024 om 16:12 schreef Chris R:
> One suggestion for future versions of POV-Ray might be to allow a mode where you
> can essentially dump the results of parsing the scene as SDL with all macros
> fully resolved.  That way you can see exactly what the parser is doing with your
> macros and help find syntax problems in them.
> 
Yes, that would be important indeed.

> Back in my C programming days we had some developers who were heavy users of
> C-style macros, so it was very difficult to map syntax errors from the compiler
> back to their original C code.  Fortunately, the C compiler separated out the
> macro processor, so you could just run that to see the resulting pure C code and
> find and fix the errors.
> 
Something like that is missing in POV-Ray I guess. It is often very 
difficult to understand or relate an error message to the proper error. 
See for instance this latest message I submitted to BE in the post above.

-- 
Thomas

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