Re: Why does DEF do instancing? (fwd)

Paul S. Strauss (pss@zeus.engr.sgi.com)
Mon, 16 Oct 1995 13:49:35 -0700


On Oct 16, 11:28am, jjc wrote:

> If end users are NOT going to be using VRML directly, and it becomes the
> domain of language generators, authoring tools, compilers, etc., as some
> people have suggested, then the intuitive ease is less an issue than
> efsiciency and language semantics, and the current DEF is a big lose here
> also.

Could you please justify this last statement? I don't see any loss of
efsiciency in the current model, nor do I see any problem with
language semantics.

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