You are right, after a nap I was able to see what you meant. Before the nap
all I could read was the part about text substitution, and I had just set up
some macros that returned a value via a variable.

I apologize for my brain dead assertions.

Nathan Kopp <Nat### [at] Koppcom> wrote in message
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> The section "Returning a Value Like a Function" talks about needing the
> extra set of parentheses.
>
> -Nathan
>
> Bill DeWitt wrote:
> >
> > Nathan Kopp <Nat### [at] Koppcom> wrote in message
> > news:3740DC55.26A3866B@Kopp.com...
> > > Macros work via text substitution.  Rmm is not really a function
returning
> > > a number.
> >
> >     POVRay documentation says differently, see: "Returning a value from
a
> > macro" or some such. I'm too groggy to think about his macro but it can
be
> > made to act like a value in the pigment.
>

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