In article <39ad1040@news.povray.org>, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> 
wrote:

>   I think that the best place for those is the global_settings block.

Actually, if they are added, it would probably be better to have them 
switchable from any point in the file, like the #version keyword. 
Otherwise, include files would require certain global_settings and could 
conflict with each other.
But it probably isn't a very good idea, since it will add the 
uncertainty of *what* degree measurement is being used. I know there are 
inconsistencies between functions and transforms, and even between 
functions, but these may be easier to deal with than having everything 
changeable.

A better solution might be degrees() and radians() functions which 
automatically convert the values being input and would work anywhere, 
regardless of the default measurement used, unfortunately, those names 
are already being used by functions which really should be named 
something like deg2rad() and rad2deg().

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