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19 Apr 2024 13:44:33 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Reserved keyword "steps" ?  
From: clipka
Date: 5 Dec 2017 02:33:24
Message: <5a264bc4$1@news.povray.org>
Am 05.12.2017 um 00:43 schrieb dick balaska:
> On 12/04/2017 05:46 PM, clipka wrote:
>>
>> A curious find.
>>
>> Indeed, the parser does recognize the keyword "steps" as a token
>> (STEPS_TOKEN), but this token is never actually tested for, i.e. it
>> doesn't do anything in any context.
>>
>> The keyword appears to have been introduced in v3.5.0 (it was absent in
>> v3.1g but present in v3.5.0c) without ever having been actually used
>> (verified for v3.5.0c, v3.6.0, v3.6.1 and v3.8.0-alpha).
>>
> 
> Who added it?

Officially that would have been Thosten Fröhlich, but judging from the
change description he may just have merged other people's changes:

"Merged in photons, new light groups, more isosurface functions,
 "hat" token as exponent sign in express.cpp, lighting changes,
 normal bug fix and various other small fixes and extensions"
(Perforce change 237, 2000-06-26)

`u_steps` and `v_steps` already existed at that point.


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