On Sat, 06 May 2000 11:11:24 -0500, Chris Huff wrote:
>> Nope, i'm talking about using external apps(.exe in wintel)... instead
>> of supporting a full blown language for function, just allow the user to
>> use the (compiled) language s/he wants to use to do the maths!
>> Instead of having to support everything you want POV's function language
>> to support, POV could just allow you to call an application, and take
>> the return value for result!!
>
>Well, I don't think there is cross-platform way of doing this.

IMHO, cross-platform is the least of your worries if you do this.  It'd be
horribly slow to spawn a new process for each evaluation of the function,
and those functions get evaluated many, many, many times for each ray that
hits the object.

-- 
Ron Parker   http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html
These are my opinions.  I do NOT speak for the POV-Team.

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