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From: gimi
Date: 3 May 2003 12:48:20
Message: <3eb3f2d4$1@news.povray.org>

Warp wrote:
>   POV-Ray functions do not support iterative control structures. The only
> way of making a loop with functions is using recursion (as in any functional
> language).

One more thing: Neither does it support conditional
structures like "#if ... #else ... #end" nor "(C ? A : B)",
AFAICS in the docs.  So, One would have to workaround this
using "select"; now I understand why Christopher mentioned
that..!

Thanks,

g.

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