In article <3c761b7b@news.povray.org>, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> 
wrote:

>   I strongly disagree.

So do I.


>   Suppose that you are making a spline with evenly-distributed time values:

Suppose you aren't.
I agree that this would be a nice option, but it isn't possible right 
now, and macro solutions are available. In the meantime, having the time 
values user-defined is far better than the spline forcing its own 
distribution. I generally don't construct splines the way you do, I 
define a few points that I want the spline to reach by a certain time, 
and fill in the blanks. The current syntax makes that quite easy, I can 
take a straight segment and add all sorts of loops and twists without 
having to add points elsewhere just to keep the distribution right. And 
the spline syntax has room for plenty of future extension. As it is now, 
it can provide a useful base for many spline macros, and is capable of 
many things macros can't do.

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