Chris Huff <chr### [at] maccom> wrote in message
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> In article <3993ce85@news.povray.org>, "Neil Freebairn"
> The text that created an object is not associated with the identifier,
> only the object data itself is. You would have to write out code
> representing the current state of the object, so it *would* be a
> conversion function.
> It might be possible to save the string that produced the object, but I
> have no idea how to do that.
>

I don't know very much about language parsing, but I'm guessing it works a
bit like this.

In parsing a declarative, the POV-Ray parser encounters '#declare' (or
'#local'), stores the identifier 'MyObj', looks for the equals, then reads
everything after the equals until the end is flagged (various conditions
apply). At this point, if we could save this string - the right-hand side of
the equals - against this identifier for returning using our function, we'd
be home and dry.

Since everything including declaratives has to be achieved through the
execution of commands for which there always has to be a code string
representation, so long as we capture all such declaratives, we should
capture all such changes to an object's state.

I should probably talk to the author(s) of the parser. Can you tell me who
that is?

Neil

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