POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : Parse weirdness : Re: Parse weirdness Server Time
28 Jul 2024 18:16:53 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Parse weirdness  
From: Andrew C on Mozilla
Date: 19 Jun 2004 14:13:45
Message: <40d48259$1@news.povray.org>
>>I would suggest that if #fclose is followed by the end of the current
>>macro (or the end of the current file) this should at the very least
>>generate a warning.
> 
> 
> 
> The reason why it doesn't, in case you're not aware, is because your macro
> could be used validly as follows:
> 
> Save(7,9) Datafile
> 
> And there may be obscure reasons that one would want to use a macro in this
> way.

Yeah, I figured as much...

There are also reasons why you might want a camera *inside* a non-hollow 
object. But it still warns you about it. That's all I was suggesting - 
that POV-Ray might give you a warning to say "hey man, did you really 
mean this?"

Andrew @ home.


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