To be blunt, that looks horrible and I hope POV never supports it. 
Sorry. ;-)
The only benefit is less typing. It makes things much more difficult to 
read, scatters relatively hard to type and visually noisy @ characters 
throughout the code (I dislike the use of the # character in the current 
syntax for the same reason), and needlessly complicates the language. 
Worse, the same word means totally different things in different 
contexts.
The only benefit would be for obfuscated and shortest code contests. If 
you really just want to save typing, I would recommend you find a good 
editor...you could also use the existing #macro feature:

#macro supell(E, N) superellipsoid {E, N #end

supell(0.1, 0.5)
    texture {...}
}

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