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29 Jul 2024 22:20:54 EDT (-0400)
  Re: function optimization question  
From: Ron Parker
Date: 19 Mar 2002 10:41:16
Message: <slrna9en0s.eie.ron.parker@fwi.com>

> On 19 Mar 2002 10:30:40 -0500, Ron Parker <ron### [at] povrayorg> wrote:
>> Loops, too.
> 
> Sounds great.
> 
>> They're just not part of the syntax.
> 
> Is this a bonus pack for patch writers or it will be boundled with Profesional
> Edition ? ;-)

What, assembly-language-like bytecode isn't good enough for you?  Kids these
days...

I think at the moment that it's a bonus pack for patch writers.  I don't know
what the Team's plans are WRT the debugging features, but you can probably
place large bets on the syntax not changing before 3.5.

-- 
#macro R(L P)sphere{L F}cylinder{L P F}#end#macro P(V)merge{R(z+a z)R(-z a-z)R(a
-z-z-z a+z)torus{1F clipped_by{plane{a 0}}}translate V}#end#macro Z(a F T)merge{
P(z+a)P(z-a)R(-z-z-x a)pigment{rgbt 1}hollow interior{media{emission T}}finish{
reflection.1}}#end Z(-x-x.2y)Z(-x-x.4x)camera{location z*-10rotate x*90}


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