In C/C++ persistent external variables are declared as static.  Since static
is not a reserved word in POV (I checked) that should be the name of a
variable that persists from frame to frame in an animation:

#static Fwd = 203.4;

"Christoph Hormann" <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote in message
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> sups wrote:
> > Hi ABX!
> >
> > Thank you for both your replies. From your previous reply it was clear
that
> > persistent variables may not have made it to MP1.0. But in the manuals
of
> > MP1.0, nowhere it has been explicitly mentioned. Therefore I had the
> > slightest hope that this feature may be accesible in some other way. It
> > would be really nice to get this feature back since my code is not
> > compatible with MP0.7.
>
> It is not very likely that this will happen any time soon.  The
> persistence of variables patch was somewhat ugly and Nathan was probably
> the only one who really understood it.
>
> I would also prefer a different syntax for such a patch.  Like for
> example a new #persistent directive which works like #declare and #local
> but stores the data differently so it is not cleared after each frame.
>
> Christoph
>
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