POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.programming : this : Re: this Server Time
28 Jul 2024 10:18:00 EDT (-0400)
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From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 24 Jun 2002 13:15:53
Message: <3d1753c9@news.povray.org>
In article <pan### [at] maccom> , Christopher James
Huff <chr### [at] maccom>  wrote:

> I don't think this would work, not with the current object syntax anyway.
> If it is available at any point in the object block, then it would have to
> be available at times when the object doesn't completely exist yet.

While it would not only not work practically when implemented as a
parse-time variable, it is also not necessary if implemented as a
render-time variable - the scope and object are always known and
well-defined without ambiguity at that time!

    Thorsten


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