hi,

"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> Now, jr has mentioned various thing about my semicolon usage.
> I noticed upon review that I can successfully assign an array without a
> semicolon, and then it's only the subsequent array that triggers the error when
> it doesn't have a semicolon.

_can_ because the parser is "forgiving", but relying on .. a quirk ?

"Note: There should be a semi-colon after the expression in all float,vector and
color identifier declarations."
<wiki.povray.org/content/Reference:Declare_and_Local_Directives#Declaring_identifiers>


> ...
> I noticed that the parser allowed and didn't complain about:
> #local in2 = #local Result = {EcResult [2], EcResult [4]};
> So who know what other wacky constructs it will let slip through.

not that one[*], beta.2 says:

Parse Error: Expected 'RValue to declare', { found instead

same with parentheses (tried supplying a "tuple" instead).

[*] replaced the 'EcResult's with '123.456' and '789.012'.


regards, jr.

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