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15 May 2024 06:47:04 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Next Generation SDL Brainstorming  
From: SharkD
Date: 11 Apr 2009 14:30:54
Message: <49e0e1de$1@news.povray.org>
clipka wrote:
> SharkD <mik### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>> clipka wrote:
>>> I think there's no need to have dedicated support for parsing other file formats
>>> in the SDL language syntax itself: A set of library functions should do, I
>>> guess. Which would also mean that there wouldn't be need to implement it right
>>> from the start.
>> No, you got it backwards. The aim is to make POV SDL easy to parse by
>> other programs. I've already written a Lua parser (specifically, a
>> pretty-printer for program source code) that anyone is welcome to adapt
>> if things end up going that way.
> 
> ?? Your statement doesn't parse to me in this context.
> 
> The previous post I was referring to proposed that *POV* should be able to parse
> *other* formats.
> 
> This was plain and clear: .obj and .df3 were explicitly mentioned - which are
> file formats, not programs.

Woops! My mistake.

-Mike


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