On Fri, 2 Nov 2001 15:01:23 +0100, "Rune" <run### [at] mobilixnetdk> wrote:

> "W?odzimierz ABX Skiba" wrote:
> > Now I found your post that it is rather limitation. If this
> > is confirmed limitation by the Team then it is sad fact for me.
>
> It's not confirmed by the Team. I don't really know if it's just a
> limitation but I'm fairly sure it is.

IIRC you can be right. There was fast macro patch within megapov based on
remebering content of macro in memory insted of file. Unfortnatelly it is part
of "Not part of 3.5" from status report.

I just found clear sentence within documentation "Calling a macro in another
file therefore requires that the other file be opened and closed for each call.
Normally, this overhead is inconsequential; however, if you are calling the
macro many thousands of times, it can cause significant delays. A future version
of the POV-Ray language will remove this problem."

I hope "future" mean 3.5a ;-)

> > I found way to make simple OOP for SDL with this.
>
> What prevents you from using the method with the counter?

nothing special. just hundreds of files :-(
I'm trying to prepare article about it for p.a-u

> > There is another thing connected with Parse_String
> > http://news.povray.org/tlstqtsgocagvejfs6knd6buql6tqo2qn3@4ax.com
>
> I'll look into this.

Thanks

ABX
--
#declare _=function(a,b,x){((a^2)+(b^2))^.5-x}#default {pigment{color rgb 1}}
union{plane{y,-3}plane{-x,-3}finish{reflection 1 ambient 0}}isosurface{ //ABX
function{_(x-2,y,1)|_((x+y)*.7,z,.1)|_((x+y+2)*.7,z,.1)|_(x/2+y*.8+1.5,z,.1)}
contained_by{box{<0,-3,-.1>,<3,0,.1>}}translate z*15finish{ambient 1}}//POV35

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