Ron Parker <ron### [at] povrayorg> wrote...
> On Tue, 25 Jul 2000 12:36:01 -0700, Alex Vandiver wrote:
> > But what I'm wondering is if we need to do this
> >workaround -- so far I've not heard anyone explain WHY nested calls are
> >explicitly outlawed in MegaPOV.  If the official verion can do it, why
> >can't Mega?
>
> Just hazarding a guess, I'd suspect it has something to do with the "fast
> macro" patch, which caches the macro for later use rather than seeking
back
> to where it's defined each time it gets called.

This is true.  I haven't found a way to pull a nested macro out of a
pre-parsed macro.  I didn't spend a lot of time trying to do it, though, so
it might not be too difficult.

-Nathan

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