Ronald L. Parker wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 24 Oct 1998 18:19:12 -0500, Wayne Gordon <way### [at] phoenixnet>
> wrote:
> 
> >> or, alternatively, some way to convert strings to identifiers, like
> >> this:
> >
> >Impossible.
> 
> Not impossible.  Just not useful except as a workaround for the lack
> of other data types.  For examples of languages that can do this (but
> in which most people wisely choose not to) see Perl or Lisp and look
> at the 'eval' function.

I meant that it was impossible to do in POV's scripting language
right now, not necessarily impossible in another language. POV can 
convert the contents of a string to a numerical value and assign
that value to a variable, but it is not possible to convert a string
to an identifier as was asked.

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