On Tue, 7 Mar 2000 14:42:02 -0800, David Vincent-Jones wrote:
>I am importing, from a generic database, a very large number of items into
>an include list.
>
>The items will be classed as possibly 100 distinctly different 'objects',
>not all of which will be predefined during the initial display.

Are the 'objects' such that they can be stored in an array?  If so, MegaPOV
has an extension to the syntax that allows you to check whether a particular
array element is defined, so you could do whatever you're doing inside a loop
or by passing the array and an index to a macro.

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