POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: Issue with function parameters: Re: Issue with function parameters

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From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 14 Feb 2004 10:30:03
Message: <402e3efb@news.povray.org>

In article <402e13f3@news.povray.org> , Florian Brucker <tor### [at] torfboldcom>
wrote:

> I just wondered why macro parameters are in the macro's local scope (and
> can therefore have the same name like higher scope identifiers) and why
> function parameters are in global scope.

Check section "6.1.6.2 Functions and Macros" and you may also want to check
section "6.2.8.3 Are POV-Ray Macros a Function or a Macro?" (keep in mind
that the later section was written for 3.1, not 3.5).

    Thorsten

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