On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 17:12:26 +0300, "Vadim Sytnikov" <syt### [at] rucom> wrote:
> Thanks a lot -- you have given me a perfect illustration why (in a good
> language) there must be no such thing as pre-processor. 

I think you missed important part of this example, it is written inside of
function so this means it should be evaluated for every intersection point as
showed used x,y,z variables.

> This code fragment is only possible since it is fed to pre-processor, not to
> SDL interpreter... Otherwise, you would *have* to write something like this:
>
> #local Rotate = transform { rotate ... }
> object { ... Rotate }

I don't understand your answer at all. And I feel that it is becouse you don't
understand existence of function{}. (Note above two-line-script contains
error)

> (for obvious reasons), that is both more reliable, and... more elegant.

It is elegant separating "if"s with different behaviour IMO

ABX

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