POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : #read problems : Re: #read problems Server Time
17 Jun 2024 07:15:28 EDT (-0400)
  Re: #read problems  
From: Kenneth
Date: 1 Oct 2018 17:45:00
Message: <web.5bb2948377bafcca47873e10@news.povray.org>
"jr" <cre### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
[Kenneth wrote:]
>
> > ... It's not obvious that AAA 'hangs around' or remains in memory(?)
> > after the txt file is closed. (There's no actual #declare or #local
> > anywhere.)
>
> try the above.  (intruding on clipka's territory here) think of the
> (re-)"#declare" of 'AAA' happening "inside" the #read.
>

Yeah; you (and Clipka) will be happy to know that I came to that very same
conclusion, after only 24-hours of really hard thinking! :-[  #Read is 'kind of
like' #declare. Duh.

(IMO: One more little nugget of info to add to the #read documentation.)


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