"Chris" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
>    I have often had the problem that POV-Ray for Windows does not succeed in
> parsing what seems to be correct code. For example, with the latest Windows
> version, if I copy verbatim (cut-and-paste) the sky sphere example from the
> docs (section 2.3.2.4),
>
>   sky_sphere {
>     pigment {
>       gradient y
>       color_map {
>         [ 0.5  color CornflowerBlue ]
>         [ 1.0  color MidnightBlue ]
>       }
>       scale 2
>       translate -1
>     }
>   }
>
> with nothing else in the file, I get the messages below.

(I guess you mean section 3.3.2.4.)

The docs sometimes don't mention the use of standard include files, such as
"colors.inc" in this case.

This typically leads to "Parse Error: Expected <WhatEver>, undeclared identifier
'<WhatElse>' found instead" messages.

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