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ASL Attribute Functions

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Steve:
It isn't possible to read attributes from a parameteric plugin script. The origional idea of a parameteric object is that it should be statically defined, independent of it's environment and of time. So any reference to outside values was forbidden. Allowing them to reference time/frame number breaks this model, of course, but it is simpler than allowing arbitrary references which can be very complex to compute, so thay aren't allowed (at the present :))

2020 Hindsight:
:( And here was me hoping to talk you into making scan accept strings as well as file handles:

scanner $scan;
string $commandString; 
$commandString = "boat,15,20,4,1,30,6,1\nboat,30,10,4,1,-150,6,1\n";
$scan.initialize($commandStirng);

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