Chris Huff <chr### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
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> In article <38d57e11@news.povray.org>, "Ian Burgmyer"
> <the### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>
> > I mean something like import/export plugins.
> > ...
> > Not if someone wanted an export plugin.
>
> We already have an interpreted language, do you want another one?
> Specifically for export plugins?
> How do you want these things to work? Would they be accessed from the
> scene file or the .ini file, or would they be part of the
> platform-specific portion of the program?

That's what I was thinking. . .something platform specific.  For instance,
it would be totally illogical to put Moray support in the Macintosh version.

> > We have that already.  #macro
> >
> > Or did you mean something more interactive, flexible or more complex?
>
> Actually, what I mean is basically macros that can be called with the
> object syntax. So you do MyObject {Position VALUE} instead of
> MakeObject(VALUE). Or ExportToWhatever{OBJECTS}

Yes, that would be very nice.  I constantly mix it up :)

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