On Thursday 28 June 2007 12:39:04 Thomas Fischbacher wrote:
> Let's take some animated 3d application. You may want to introduce a
> dynamically scoped notion of, say, "pre-allocated stack of buffers for
> position vectors which behaves like a C stack with respect to functions
> temporarily using this for computations", so that all the functions that
> call one another during rendering of a frame may use that very same
> stack in an orderly fashion (with scoping behaviour just as the C
> stack). Still, the existence and visibility of this stack is confined
> to some "render-animation" function.

Pass the stack as an argument to those functions that need it.

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