In article <3979B575.F3DBCCD5@skynet.be>, Fabien Mosen 
<fab### [at] skynetbe> wrote:

> Problems with the current implementation : 
> 
>  - The name of the splines are defined as a string inside the spline 
>    definition.  This is inconsistent within POV-Ray syntax, and does 
>    not allow redefinition of a spline (a new spline with the same 
>    name).  Thus, it does not allow the algorithmic generation of 
>    multiple splines.
>    
>  - Unability to "extract" values of the control points (for example, 
>    if I want to put a sphere at each control point)
>    
> What would be a nice syntax ?

Why not just use the "other" spline patch, the one with this syntax:
#declare SplineIdent =
spline {
    ...
}

This could easily be extended to do the things you want, and has a much 
simpler and more intuitive syntax which is fairly consistent with the 
rest of the POV-Ray language syntax.

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