The following code segment worked perfectly in 3.1g but seems to be
broken:

// Start Code
#declare view = array[10] {
 camera { location <-20.0, 25.0 ,-101 > look_at <140.0,  0.0 , 92.0> },
// 0. Primary view
 camera { location < 10.0,  5.0 , -1.5> look_at <  0.0,  0.6 ,  0.0> },
// 1. Medium object snapshot
 camera { location <  2.0,  0.2 , -1.0> look_at <  0.0,  0.0 ,  0.0> },
// 2. Small object snapshot
 camera { location <  0.0,800.0 , -1.0> look_at <  0.0,  0.0 ,  0.0> },
// 3. Bird's eye view
 camera { location < -1.0, 31.0 , 24.0> look_at < -1.0, 29.0 ,  0.0> },
// 4. Interior view
 camera { location <-96.0, 37.0 ,181.5> look_at <  0.5, 48.6 ,  0.0> },
// 5. Large object snapshot
 camera { location <-40.0,  8.0 , -9.0> look_at <-50.0,  1.0 ,-55.0> },
// 6. Room panorama
 camera { location < -3.0,  3.0 , 32.0> look_at <-20.0,  5.0 , 23.0> },
// 7. Altar view
 camera { location < 23.0, 15.0 , 32.0> look_at <  0.0, 40.0 ,  1.0> },
// 8. Roof view
 camera { location <  0.0,  2.0 , 18.0> look_at <  0.0,-10.0 ,-21.0> }
// 9. Organ view
}

camera { view[5] }
// End Code

I get a "Parse Error: No matching } in 'object', camera found instead"
on the last line of this section.  I use this camera array trick in
complex scenes to preserve the main shot and to debug problem areas and
component objects.  Why has this seemingly obvious use of array elements
ceased to work?

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