JRG wrote:

> >Thus if I write 'x' I mean it, i.e.<1,0,0>. I don't want POV to turn my x
> into x >+<0,1,1>, why? So, I find the present behaviour acceptable: if you
> like to make it >the wrong way (because IT IS the wrong way) POV will help
> you, but nothing can >prevent it to tell you that you're making it the wrong
> way.

I have been using POV-Ray for almost nine years. I certainly know the definition
of x (or y or z for that matter). My remarks, which have universally been taken
as signs of ignorance, concerned the ergonomic fact that, for the special case
of scale, since POV *does* change the 0s to 1s (like it or not it does this),
that the warning for this case alone should not be given. The rationale for this
is that it is simply *as an end-user* easier to type scale x*.2 than  scale
<.2,1,1>, when the internal parser is happily converting those offending 0s to
1s anyay. As a prograamer you may be horrified that I want the program to make
it easier for me to do something, but as a user, I want it as efficient as I can
get it.

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