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  Re: Any more characters in declared names possible ?  
From: clipka
Date: 9 May 2011 05:18:59
Message: <4dc7b183$1@news.povray.org>
Am 20.04.2011 15:24, schrieb Mr:
> Alain<aze### [at] qwertyorg>  wrote:
>
>>
>> The same way, you can't use any of those in a name:
>> |!&*/+-.^=%"'@#\(){}[]<>
>
>
> Thanks, this will allow a more complete fix when I get the time.

As a matter of fact, current versions of POV-Ray support only latin 
upper- and lowercase letters (a-z, A-Z), underscore (_), and digits 
(0-9). The latter cannot be used as first character of an identifier. As 
for ASCII characters, it is unlikely that any other characters will ever 
be added to the list of allowed identifier characters (unless some 
special syntax would be added to support truly arbitrary identifier 
names); As for non-ASCII Unicode characters, I currently wouldn't place 
any bets either way.


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