Tom Melly <tom### [at] tomandlucouk> wrote:
: A good point - the obvious solution, from a user's point of view, would be that
: scale <0,0,2> would generate an error (not a warning), but scale z*2 wouldn't,
: it would just silently expand to <1,1,2> - however, from a programmer's p.o.v.
: (sic) I can see that this might be impossible if the expansion to a full vector
: is done before the vector operation itself...

  I have the feeling that the promotion is done as an independent and
completely separated step, before the 'rotate' code even sees it. Thus it
would be very difficult to distinguish between the two.
  And besides, should this generate the warning/error or not:

#declare Scale = y*2;
scale Scale

-- 
#macro N(D,I)#if(I<6)cylinder{M()#local D[I]=div(D[I],104);M().5,2pigment{
rgb M()}}N(D,(D[I]>99?I:I+1))#end#end#macro M()<mod(D[I],13)-6,mod(div(D[I
],13),8)-3,10>#end blob{N(array[6]{11117333955,
7382340,3358,3900569407,970,4254934330},0)}//                     - Warp -

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