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15 May 2024 19:00:51 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Next Generation SDL Brainstorming  
From: clipka
Date: 11 Apr 2009 05:45:03
Message: <web.49e065bead59404719d16df90@news.povray.org>
SharkD <mik### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> clipka wrote:
> > I think there's no need to have dedicated support for parsing other file formats
> > in the SDL language syntax itself: A set of library functions should do, I
> > guess. Which would also mean that there wouldn't be need to implement it right
> > from the start.
>
> No, you got it backwards. The aim is to make POV SDL easy to parse by
> other programs. I've already written a Lua parser (specifically, a
> pretty-printer for program source code) that anyone is welcome to adapt
> if things end up going that way.

?? Your statement doesn't parse to me in this context.

The previous post I was referring to proposed that *POV* should be able to parse
*other* formats.

This was plain and clear: .obj and .df3 were explicitly mentioned - which are
file formats, not programs.


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