Any chance that one will be able to exit loops and macros via #break (or 
some other command) in an upcoming POV-Ray version?

Florian

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In article <4082a04d$1@news.povray.org>,
 Florian Brucker <tor### [at] torfboldcom> wrote:

> Any chance that one will be able to exit loops and macros via #break (or 
> some other command) in an upcoming POV-Ray version?

Probably not any time soon, at least not in an official version. 
Development will probably focus more on POV 4.0 from now on, with only 
maintenance updates to 3.x. If nobody forgets and it works out, it will 
probably eventually get implemented in 4.x. In the meantime, just check 
a halting variable:

#local Stop = false;
#local J = 0;
#while(!Stop & J < 10)
    #if(rand(RS) < 0.1)
        #local Stop = true;
    #else
        #local J = J + 1;
    #end
#end

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Florian Brucker <tor### [at] torfboldcom> wrote:
> Any chance that one will be able to exit loops and macros via #break (or 
> some other command) in an upcoming POV-Ray version?

  Currently you can usually get the same effect using #ifs. The #breaks may
sometimes shorten the code a bit, but it's not such a big burder to use
the #ifs.

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