7.2.59 hdefine

(hdefine geometry|camera|window|appearance|image|transform|ntransform name value)

Sets the value of a handle of a given type.

  (hdefine  <type>  <name>  <value>)

is generally equivalent to

  (read <type>  { define <name> <value> })

except that the assignment is done when hdefine is executed, (possibly not at all if inside a conditional statement), while the read … define performs assignment as soon as the text is read. See Embedded objects and external-object references. See (read …). See (hdelete …).