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From: Steve
Subject: Re: POV-Ray VS MegaPOV
Date: 20 Oct 2000 16:21:36
Message: <slrn8v19p5.690.steve@zero-pps.localdomain>
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 17:10:29 +0100, Mike Williams wrote:

>There are a few extra reserved words. I found that a lot of my old POV-
>Ray scenes needed to be modified because they used "r" as a variable.

That reminds me that in an old version of MegaPOV I couldn't use the 
word "count" as a variable, not sure if that's been changed or not. 

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From: Nathan Kopp
Subject: Re: POV-Ray VS MegaPOV
Date: 20 Oct 2000 23:51:13
Message: <39f112b1@news.povray.org>
"Mike Williams" <mik### [at] nospamplease> wrote...
>
> The new faster #macro implementation won't handle nested #macros,
> whereas POV-Ray does handle them. I.e. you must #end one #macro before
> you start defining the next one.

Actually, that has been fixed so MegaPov can handle nested macros.  :-)

-Nathan


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From: Chris Huff
Subject: Re: POV-Ray VS MegaPOV
Date: 23 Oct 2000 17:46:05
Message: <chrishuff-35034C.16485823102000@news.povray.org>
In article <3EA### [at] econymdemoncouk>, Mike Williams 
<mik### [at] econymdemoncouk> wrote:

> There are a few extra reserved words. I found that a lot of my old POV-
> Ray scenes needed to be modified because they used "r" as a variable.

There is a very easy way to avoid this: always use at least one capital 
letter in your variable names. Keywords will always be lower-case.

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