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  Re: Still the ^ bug. WTF is no patch out there?  
From: Christian Parpart
Date: 31 Jul 2002 09:42:54
Message: <3d47e95d@news.povray.org>
ABX inspired the electrons to say:
> On 31 Jul 2002 09:16:08 -0400, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>> Removed? There's no official POV-Ray version which as a ^-operator, so
>> it's difficult to remove it.
> 
> Don't be soo detailed. Note about it is distributed with official release
> and is called in log:
> 
> Change 1634 on 2002/05/30 by thorsten@host27
>   Removes "hat"-operator and replaces it with "pow"-function
> 
> From view of official versions it was neither removed or replaced but is
> it so important ? Isn't it just simpler to tell: "it was tested during 3.5
> beta-testing but due to some problems was not included in final release" ?

Well, there's a wonderfull water example using POV-Ray 3.5 wich makes 
extensive use of that hat (^) operator.
Replacing it by its pow function make the source bigger and (perhaps) not 
more readable.

Greets,
Christian.


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