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25 Apr 2024 08:07:14 EDT (-0400)
  Re: dot-notation not allowed in functions?  
From: clipka
Date: 30 Jul 2018 09:01:19
Message: <5b5f0c1f$1@news.povray.org>
Am 30.07.2018 um 14:53 schrieb Kenneth:

> I assumed that the dot-notation would work-- because the components of VAR are
> all individual scalar quantities now.
> 
> I tried surrounding the individual VAR components with parentheses (to try and
> 'eliminate' their vector nature, similar to dot-operator use for colors when a
> 'non-color' value is needed) but that doesn't work either.
> 
> I'm curious to know the reason for this limitation.

Functions are essentially processed by a completely different parser.
Some features implemented in the normal parser never made it into the
functions parser.


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