Re: Why does DEF do instancing?

Chris Marrin ([email protected])
Thu, 19 Oct 1995 08:52:44 -0700

On Oct 19, 1:44pm, Mitra wrote:
> Subject: Re: Why does DEF do instancing?
> ...
>
> PROTO Wheel { .... }
> DEF MyBike Seperator {
> USE Wheel
> USE Wheel
> }
>
> Is much more symetric than
>
> DEF MyBike Seperator {
> DEF Wheel { ... }
> USE Wheel
> }

Symmetry? That's what this is all about? You want prettier VRML? Unless
there is some semantic construct that cannot be expressed with the current
DEF/USE syntax I can see no use for PROTO.

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