Dave Dunn <poi### [at] aolcom> wrote:
: As a prograamer you may be horrified that I want the program to make
: it easier for me to do something, but as a user, I want it as efficient as I can
: get it.

  Suppose that you have a #while-loop where you are creating copies of the
same object scaled thinner and thinner in one axis. However, you make a small
mistake and forget that scaling by 0 is not possible, and you have one of
those copies scaled by 0 in that axis.
  So what you get is a series of objects scaled thinner and thinner and
thinner and... What? One of the objects is not scaled! What happened here?
Is there a bug in POV-Ray?
  Now, if you look at the message window and see the warning, you immediately
realize that "oops! true, I forgot to take into account the scale-by-0 case".
  However, if there is no warning, you may not see what is wrong there!

  In my opinion it shouldn't even be a warning, but a plain error. It would
stop this kind of mistakes immediately.
  Understand better now?

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