Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in news:3db1bd8f$6@news.povray.org

I.e someone will write script, with variables like say :
  a, b, c, speed, displacment, size
It will work fine, until in say POV 4.0 displacment will became a 
reserved word and stop this script from working.

I like very much PHP style - where every variable name starts with '$'.

What do You think about allowing, as PHP, syntax with variant types, 
say :
$x = 100;
  "foo"+$x+"bar"  will result in "foo100bar" (x is used like string)
and :
  20 + $x         will result in 120 (x is used like number)

-- 
#macro g(U,V)(.4*abs(sin(9*sqrt(pow(x-U,2)+pow(y-V,2))))*pow(1-min(1,(sqrt(
pow(x-U,2)+pow(y-V,2))*.3)),2)+.9)#end#macro p(c)#if(c>1)#local l=mod(c,100
);g(2*div(l,10)-8,2*mod(l,10)-8)*p(div(c,100))#else 1#end#end light_source{
y 2}sphere{z*20 9pigment{function{p(26252423)*p(36455644)*p(66656463)}}}//M

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