Serge LAROCQUE wrote:
> 
> Just a question: Is keeping the backward compatibility of POV-Ray with older
> syntax important?

 Not for Glen Berry but for many other people, yes. There are a lot of
people out there who are sharing their scene files with the public.
Not everyone want's to spend 10 - 20 min. editing legacy code just to
render it to see if there is anything in there worth adopting in their
own work or simply because the like the image it produces so much they
want a higher resolution and quality version of it. Some very useful
utilities write code for earlier versions of POV-Ray yet the script they
produce is highly desirable. Some of these produce extremely large files
that are nearly impossible to edit manually. This is where the backward
compatiblity really pays off.

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