POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unofficial.patches : POV+for() : Re: POV+for() Server Time
3 Sep 2024 04:19:09 EDT (-0400)
  Re: POV+for()  
From: Nieminen Mika
Date: 7 May 1999 09:36:55
Message: <3732de67.0@news.povray.org>
Phil Clute <pcl### [at] tiacnet> wrote:
: I've always been curious as to why the pov-team chose #declare
: over #define.

  Because #declared identifiers in povray are not macros, while #defined
identifiers in C are macros.
  The #macros in 3.1 work like #defines in C, but naming them as #define
instead of #macro would have been very confusing.

-- 
main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/


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