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In article <172### [at] 3-e net>, Daniel Matthews <dan#@3-e.net>
wrote:
> Thanks for that, it gave me a useful insight into POV's internals.
> It also made me wonder if in some future version of POV the parser could be
> data driven from an XML file so that it was extensible without having to
> recompile. The XML file would supply the token information and a reference
> to a loadable object or plug-in.
This has the same problem as any other plug-in idea, it is platform
dependant. You can't dynamically load code in a platform independant
way, and the plugins would only work for the platform they are compiled
on. If you could, you wouldn't need the XML representation of the syntax.
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Christopher James Huff <cja### [at] earthlinknet>
http://home.earthlink.net/~cjameshuff/
POV-Ray TAG: chr### [at] tagpovrayorg
http://tag.povray.org/
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