"Lutz-Peter Hooge" <lpv### [at] gmxde> wrote in message
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> Jessie K. Blair <jbl### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:
>
> > When I run this code I get an error from the parser that states "Parse
> > error: No matching } in 'object', object found instead.
>
> There can be exactly one object inside 'object{...}'. Your macro
> generates many objects, so you must use a union instead.

Glad you knew that, I think a lot of people might believe you could group
things into a single object statement for it to act similar to union. It's
something I had to think twice about although I knew that was the obvious
answer, because if I were to write this:

#declare AllObjects=
object {
 object {Object1}
 object {Object2}
 texture {ObjTex)
}

couldn't you imagine the object wrappers might collect them into a group
same as union does? Perhaps not if there weren't 'object' for each
(identifier alone)...  Just one of those things that seems plausible until
the error proves otherwise.

Bob H.

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