POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: Bug in (Mega)POV for Windows?: Re: Bug in (Mega)POV for Windows?

POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Bug in (Mega)POV for Windows? : Re: Bug in (Mega)POV for Windows?		Server Time 8 Aug 2024 12:22:29 EDT (-0400)

From: Chris Colefax
Date: 26 Dec 2000 17:51:06
Message: <3a4920da@news.povray.org>

Francois Labreque <fla### [at] videotronca> wrote:
> The syntax highlighter used in the various versions of POV for windows
> thinks atan() is a valid function.
>
> Have I discovered a new bug?  Should I post to povray.bugreports?

No - atan() *is* invalid.  POV-Ray 3.1 only supports the atan2() function,
with instructions in the docs to use atan2(A, 1) if you want something that
acts like regular atan().

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