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> Am 20.05.2011 09:46, schrieb Thomas de Groot:
>
>> The contained_by in
>> isosurfaces is also an object modifier, strictly speaking.
>
> No, not really. Not according to how OBJECT_MODIFIERS is defined 
> syntactically.

I am sure I agree with you here. What I mean to say is that - for the 
layman - contained_by is looked upon in the same way as an object modifier.

> Note the same goes for /any/ object type: Object-type specific keywords 
> must go first, before any generic object modifiers. So do we need such a 
> sentence in the description of /all/ the primitives?

Well, it seems I am not one of those lucky ones who know the docs perfectly 
:-)  Your point is well taken, only I had never really thought about it in 
that way, and I suppose many are in the same position as me...

I think this whole discussion is not useless. We all learned something 
essential it seems. Hurray!  :-)

Thomas

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