POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.programming : Parsing/Directives : Re: Parsing/Directives Server Time
17 May 2024 04:24:31 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Parsing/Directives  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 17 Jan 2006 21:44:20
Message: <43cdab84$1@news.povray.org>
Paul Senzee wrote:
> I'm rewriting the parser for my pov2mesh application
> (http://www.geocities.com/psenzee/pov2mesh/) and I've got a question about
> how directives are handled in pov.  Are the directives in POV a logically
> separate phase like a C preprocessor?

Sadly, no. They sit slightly "below" the parser, closer to the tokenizing 
code, yet they do interact with the parser in some complex ways that won't 
be clear from the source code immediately.

	Thorsten Froehlich, POV-Team


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