"Christopher James Huff" <cja### [at] earthlinknet> wrote in message
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> "Rafal 'Raf256' Maj" <raf### [at] raf256com> wrote in message
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> > I.e someone will write script, with variables like say :
> >   a, b, c, speed, displacment, size
>
> Use upper case in your variable names. Upper case words will never be
> reserved.

Would it be conceivable that a future POV-Ray could tag any and all
user-defined identifiers, regardless of case, as a non-keyword? It's not
always compulsory to use upper case letters so it can seem okay. In fact,
people have often complained they couldn't use a number as the first
character either.

> > What do You think about allowing, as PHP, syntax with variant types,
> > say :
> > $x = 100;
> >   "foo"+$x+"bar"  will result in "foo100bar" (x is used like string)
> > and :
> >   20 + $x         will result in 120 (x is used like number)
>
> You're joking, right? You *like* that?

That would be weird to me.

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