On Wed, 30 Jun 1999 14:43:09 -0700, Ken wrote:
>
>
>  When did this become legal syntax and why ?
>
>#declare B = box {-1,1}
> B
>
>  I have always been under the impression a declared object needed
>to be wrapped in an object statment to work properly.
>
>e.g. object {B}

It's not in the docs, therefore it's not technically legal.  But the 
toplevel parser basically says "If it's a directive or a camera or a 
few other top-level things, just do it, otherwise parse it as an object."

It's probably that way so light sources may be used wherever objects
may, such as in unions, and so that object{} blocks may be nested or
used within CSG with a little less work for the parser.  Don't ask me
to explain how I came to this conclusion.

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