In article <403C146F.38604E10@tag.povray.org>,
 Ken <ken### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:

> How much program bloat will it add and how many people will be served by
> it? If it's just to provide a new toy, for a few dedicated programming
> enthusiasts, rather than to act as a significant improvement for the
> mainstream user, I don't think it is worth the effort.

Honestly, it won't add much bloat. And everyone who uses POV will be 
served by it, even if they don't use the features directly. It would 
make it easier for the programmer types to create extensions for POV 
(lens flares, for example), and make those extensions easier to use.

About the bloat issue: actually, it would be a good idea to replace the 
parser completely rather than trying to wedge OO features into this one, 
in which case the result could be much faster and more efficient than 
the present parser. And remember that non-programmers do use the work 
that programming enthusiasts create. The main point of object 
orientation is to make it possible to have a simple way to use complex 
things, without caring about the guts.

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