Tor Olav Kristensen wrote:
> 
> I have been a little bit worried about my use of semicolons.
> 
> Earlier I have seen that too many missing semicolons can
> cause crashes of POV-Ray (on my Windows 98 machine at home,
> and if I remember right, also on my Windows NT4 machine at
> work).

This is new to me. You mean the machine crached? Or just POV quit parsing?
Usually, missing semi-colons should only produce warnings (at least in the
current version). Only in some macros have I seen actual errors caused by them.

> ... So now I am totally confused about semi-colons!
> 

Semi-colons should only go after declarations of floats and vectors (colours can
also be thought of as vectors).
If you are declaring an array, it should not have a semi-colon:

#declare MyArray=array[10]

If the docs said otherwse, this is a typo. However, if you are declaring an
element of an array, and that element is a float or a vector, it should have a
semi-colon:

#declare MyArray[0]=11.5;

See docs section "Declaring identifiers" for further reference.

Margus

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