In article <3992a1a5@news.povray.org>, "Neil Freebairn" 
<nei### [at] lineonenet> wrote:

> My solution is coded entirely in POV 3.1 scene language, because it's 
> quick to prototype, I hoped I might get all the way, and I don't know 
> any C++.

You seem to be under the impression that POV is written in C++...it is 
written in plain old C, though a rewrite in C++ is planned for 4.0. And 
adding a function is usually quite easy...one of the easiest things to 
do.


> Many of the features new to POV 3.1 (and perhaps some to the 
> soon-to-be-released v3.5) bring the scene language closer to a 
> language proper, say a 4GL.

Uhh, "4GL"?


> A function that would be useful in this regard, independent of my 
> requirement, is this 'makestr(ANY_IDENTIFIER)' function that works 
> like str(FLOAT_IDENTIFIER).

The str() function converts a float to a string...how would you convert 
a shape to a string? Would you just have it return POV-Script 
representing the object? Or return the code that generated the object in 
the first place?


> Are you familiar with the POV source and C++, by any chance?

I am familiar with both, not that they have much to do with each other 
at this point. :-)

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