In article <401d72cd@news.povray.org>, war### [at] tagpovrayorg says...
>   Removing this feature would be a major drawback for the format.
> 

I can see it being useful and I don't suggest myself that it should be 
removed. However, I wouldn't mind seeing a new command of some sort that 
does treat the contents of a file as raw data, instead of trying to 
interpret it. There are script languages that do something similar, but 
they provide a means to read code *or* data. Currently POV-Ray only does 
interpretation and it is the one which tends to be convenient only if you 
are aware of the oddity and how to use it.

It is definitely an interesting quirk though.

-- 
void main () {

    call functional_code()
  else
    call crash_windows();
}

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