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29 Jul 2024 08:25:05 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Spanish Patio -Parse Error  
From: clipka
Date: 22 May 2012 18:21:56
Message: <4fbc1184$1@news.povray.org>
Am 22.05.2012 11:45, schrieb sic2:
> I am trying to render the following scene:
> http://www.ignorancia.org/en/index.php?page=Patio
> using MegaPOV (I cannot use PovRay on Mac).
>
> I already included all the necessary additional files: LightsysIV.
>
> However, when I am rendering the scene I get the following parse error:
>
> File: .../Spanish Patio/patio/meshlath.inc  Line: 33
> File Context (5 lines):
> // horner's rule
> #macro Horner(T,row,point
> Parse Error: Expected 'identifier or expression.', point found instead
>
> I have not changed anything in the file provided by Ignoracia, so I do not see
> what I am doing wrong.

MegaPOV reserves "point" as a keyword for its projection pattern.

As future versions or derivatives of POV-Ray may introduce additional 
all-lowercase identifiers as keywords, it best practice to start 
variable names with an uppercase letter; apparently though, even the 
best don't always adhere to this.


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