> If what you are saying is true, the initial value for scale on any given
object
> would be scale <0,0,0>. In other words, if I want to create  "sphere
> {<0,0,0>,1}," I would have to write it "sphere {<0,0,0>,1 scale <1,1,1>}"
to
> make it visible. Since this is not the way it is, I submit that scale is a
> special case, whose values are initialized at <1,1,1>, and if you want to
scale
> by any of the axes alone, the other two axes should remain at the value of
1.
> Therefore, the warning should not exist, because it is certainly legal to
> translate or rotate by a single axis. This, of course, is at the end-user
level;
> I agree that what happens internally in the source code is another issue.

Thing is, "scale y" doesn't mean "scale <ignore this, 1, ignore this>". It
means "scale <0, 1, 0>". The "y" *explicitly* states zero for the x and z
components of the vector.

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