It appears to me the problem is that the parser believes you
are defining a recursive compound texture..... butted
textures after a #declare are grouped.

So this may be a fundamental weakness in the syntax rather than
a bug in the implementation.

This should also "fail" :

sphere {
  0, 1
  #declare X = texture { pigment { color rgb 1 } }
  texture { pigment { color rgb 0 } }
}

The solution to this is for ALL "#" directives be semicolon terminated,
or at least all #declares..... I wonder why this wasn't done?

Dan

Friedemann Schmidt wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> With POV-Ray for Windows v3.0 and v3.1 this works:
> 
>   sphere {
>     0, 1
>     texture {
>       #declare X = texture { pigment { color rgb <1, 0, 0> } }
>       #declare Dummy = 1234;
>       X
>     }
>   }
> 
> This doesn't work - it causes an error like "Missing pigment"
> 
>   sphere {
>     0, 1
>     texture {
>       #declare X = texture { pigment { color rgb <1, 0, 0> } }
>       X
>     }
>   }
> 




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