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From: Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk>
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Subject: Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2019 14:19:26 +0000 (GMT)
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In article <58145cb23cbasura@invalid.addr.uk>, Richard Ashbery
<basura@invalid.addr.uk> wrote:
> In article <mpro.q13yny00yw3jx01ho.news@stevefryatt.org.uk>, Steve
> Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> wrote:

> > What do you mean by "a lot of time"? Is that programmer time in
> > working out the calls to use, or actual program execution time?
> > The latter possibly, but if the former, then why not
> > PROCrectange(x%, y%, w%, h%, a)?

> The former - for simple soles like me ;-)

Or did I mean souls - It'll give you a laugh!!! 

> 4 lines of code should do it...

> FOR rotate = 0 TO PI STEP PI/4 GCOL RND(10) RECTANGLE FILL
> 0,0,600,400,rotate NEXT rotate

> OK it can't be done but could it be implemented in some form? Only
> by substituting ELLIPSE for RECTANGLE will it work.