In article <chr### [at] netplexaussieorg> , 
Christopher James Huff <chr### [at] maccom>  wrote:

>> Can I make a macro that would calculate a macro that I would pass it in
>> a parameter?
>
> Not currently. But this has little to do with anything being
> "precalculated", POV just assumes you want the result of a macro call
> instead of the macro identifier, similar problems exist with splines and
> functions. It should be possible to implement with a little parser work.

With parenthesis it should always for.  A recursive decent parser simply
cannot parser implement a grammar like the one needed to solve the above
problem without ambiguity.

    Thorsten

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