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From: Vadim Sytnikov
Date: 15 Mar 2002 12:00:47
Message: <3c9228bf$1@news.povray.org>

> I like power which appear in
> ability to write short scripts like for example sigs :-)

I see... and I would like to assure you that I... err, share your desire for
poerful features. The *only* question is -- how is that power unleashed?

I, for one, cannot be convinced not to use forward goto's in C at all --
there is simply no other efficient way to escape deeply nested loop. In
Java, one can demand that there must be no goto's at all -- since there are
labeled loops AND you can always 'break' the loop you want (by its label).
In C, you sometimes have no alternative, especially in a time-critical
code...

So, as to POV-Ray, the challenge is just provide powerful AND
well-structured featureas which will render puwerful BUT unreliable features
obsolete.


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