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22 Mar 2026 02:12:48 EDT (-0400)
  Re: question about same code(?) and different render  
From: Bald Eagle
Date: 21 Mar 2026 12:30:00
Message: <web.69bec7582834f0ea1f9dae3025979125@news.povray.org>
Cousin Ricky <ric### [at] yahoocom> wrote:

> Whoa, this is news to me!  Where is this in the documentation?

> This has implications for macros that force promotion on its arguments
> or that return vectors to be used as colors.  Sometimes the only way to
> avoid a parse warning or parse error is to use the color keyword.

Yeah, this is what happens when I get too little sleep and try to wrangle things
with a search engine while I'm doing 8 other things at the same time have and no
direct access to povray so I can run test code.

It didn't seem right - especially due to the vector promotion thing, but I just
plowed right through that and didn't listen to "the little voice".

What a gaffe.  Someone delete this.  :O

- BE


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