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  Re: Am I being stupid or is this an bug?  
From: Warp
Date: 9 Jan 2007 03:15:11
Message: <45a34f0f@news.povray.org>
Hugo <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> It's amazing I got away with no errors for the other 600 odd atoms.

  <1 -2 3> is equivalent to <-1, 3>, which is equivalent to <-1, 3, 0>
which is a valid vector and thus you won't get an error.

  <1 -2 -3> is equivalent to <-4> which is not a valid vector and thus
you got the error.

  Always use commas to avoid this kind of mixup. (There's a good reason
to support values without commas, but that's a different story.)

-- 
                                                          - Warp


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