In article <38a91600@news.povray.org>, Nieminen Juha 
<war### [at] sarakerttunencstutfi> wrote:

>   I noticed that most things are #defined as integer constant in the 
>   povray source code. For example:
...
> and so on.
> 
>   Perhaps it could be worth trying with an enum type instead? This way:

MegaPOV already uses an enum, look in pattern.h:

enum PATTERN_IDS
{
  NO_PATTERN = 0,
  PLAIN_PATTERN,
  AVERAGE_PATTERN,
  BITMAP_PATTERN,
...


>   This also makes it easier to add new types (the numeration changes
> automatically as needed), so if nothing else, it's worth because of that.

It certainly does, having to renumber many of the entries just to add 
one thing was quite annoying...
I think any possible speed increase would be heavily compiler dependant, 
though.

-- 
Chris Huff
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Web page: http://chrishuff.dhs.org/

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