Scoping rules for TEXMAP


Scoping rules for TEXMAP
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This is a proposal for changing the scoping rules for TEXMAP:

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Quote:This texture will remain in effect until:
  • An END is given within the current file
  • The file in which the START is located ends
  • A STEP command is reached
The texture will remain active when processing an included file unless overridden within that file.

and change:
Quote:The END command stops using the current texture and restores the previous texture to current status. This means that nested commands with START will form a stack of textures and the END command will pop those textures. However, END cannot appear in a different file from START. If an END command is given in a sub file without a START having been given in that same file, the END stops the use of a texture specified in a calling file, then that texture will be restored to use when the sub file is exitedhas no effect.

These scoping changes are critically important to implementing a hierarchical, object-oriented model to textures. It will be impossible for me to implement the standard as it currently exists. I already have a working implementation of the changes described above (*).

Allen

(*) with the exception of the stack behavior for nested textures, which is a simple enough addition
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Scoping rules for TEXMAP - by Allen Smith - 2012-10-09, 16:32
Re: Scoping rules for TEXMAP - by Allen Smith - 2012-10-16, 17:10
Re: Scoping rules for TEXMAP - by Allen Smith - 2012-10-25, 18:43

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