In article <3d4690fa@news.povray.org>, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> 
wrote:

> Christian Parpart <cpa### [at] surakwarenet> wrote:
> > I'm really very sad about that ugly bug(!).
> 
>   Which bug? I don't recall any bug regarding the ^ symbol.

Especially since it doesn't even mean anything to POV...what about the 
ugly & bug? And %, $, @, ~, `...and the "irtc_winning_scene" keyword 
isn't recognized!

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It's not a bug. The hat^ operator has been removed from version 3.5. I 
wish it wasn't, because it made things so much easier. Some people said 
it caused problems with operator precedence, but I never had any 
problems. Usally I would put everything into parenthesis anyway.

Christian Parpart wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm really very sad about that ugly bug(!). There're neither the sources 
> available for download yet(tomorrow?) nor a patch against this bad thing. 
> 
> Another possibility would be to provide (binary/source) snapshots by 
> default. 
> 
> I just didn't find anything :-(((
> 
> Thanks,
> Christian Parpart.
> 


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Christopher James Huff <chr### [at] maccom> wrote:
> what about the ugly & bug?

  Is there some bug with that operator?

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#macro M(A,N,D,L)plane{-z,-9pigment{mandel L*9translate N color_map{[0rgb x]
[1rgb 9]}scale<D,D*3D>*1e3}rotate y*A*8}#end M(-3<1.206434.28623>70,7)M(
-1<.7438.1795>1,20)M(1<.77595.13699>30,20)M(3<.75923.07145>80,99)// - Warp -

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Samuel Benge <sbe### [at] caltelcom> wrote:
> The hat^ operator has been removed from version 3.5.

  Removed? There's no official POV-Ray version which as a ^-operator, so
it's difficult to remove it.

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#macro M(A,N,D,L)plane{-z,-9pigment{mandel L*9translate N color_map{[0rgb x]
[1rgb 9]}scale<D,D*3D>*1e3}rotate y*A*8}#end M(-3<1.206434.28623>70,7)M(
-1<.7438.1795>1,20)M(1<.77595.13699>30,20)M(3<.75923.07145>80,99)// - Warp -

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On 31 Jul 2002 09:16:08 -0400, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> Removed? There's no official POV-Ray version which as a ^-operator, so
> it's difficult to remove it.

Don't be soo detailed. Note about it is distributed with official release and
is called in log:

Change 1634 on 2002/05/30 by thorsten@host27
  Removes "hat"-operator and replaces it with "pow"-function

From view of official versions it was neither removed or replaced but is it so
important ? Isn't it just simpler to tell: "it was tested during 3.5
beta-testing but due to some problems was not included in final release" ?

ABX

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ABX inspired the electrons to say:
> On 31 Jul 2002 09:16:08 -0400, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>> Removed? There's no official POV-Ray version which as a ^-operator, so
>> it's difficult to remove it.
> 
> Don't be soo detailed. Note about it is distributed with official release
> and is called in log:
> 
> Change 1634 on 2002/05/30 by thorsten@host27
>   Removes "hat"-operator and replaces it with "pow"-function
> 
> From view of official versions it was neither removed or replaced but is
> it so important ? Isn't it just simpler to tell: "it was tested during 3.5
> beta-testing but due to some problems was not included in final release" ?

Well, there's a wonderfull water example using POV-Ray 3.5 wich makes 
extensive use of that hat (^) operator.
Replacing it by its pow function make the source bigger and (perhaps) not 
more readable.

Greets,
Christian.

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On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 15:42:54 +0200, Christian Parpart <cpa### [at] surakwarenet>
wrote:
> Well, there's a wonderfull water example using POV-Ray 3.5 wich makes 
> extensive use of that hat (^) operator.

And this is bug you are reffering to ? Why you not ask author of this example
to correct this bug ? He probably know that his example is not 3.5 compatible.

> Replacing it by its pow function make the source bigger and (perhaps) not 
> more readable.

Don't ask for not readable languages, please :-)

ABX

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Christian Parpart <cpa### [at] surakwarenet> wrote:
> Replacing it by its pow function make the source bigger

  Big deal?

> and (perhaps) not more readable.

  Isn't unambiguous text more readable than one where there could be
ambiguousity?

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#macro N(D)#if(D>99)cylinder{M()#local D=div(D,104);M().5,2pigment{rgb M()}}
N(D)#end#end#macro M()<mod(D,13)-6mod(div(D,13)8)-3,10>#end blob{
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ABX inspired the electrons to say:
> On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 15:42:54 +0200, Christian Parpart
> <cpa### [at] surakwarenet> wrote:
>> Well, there's a wonderfull water example using POV-Ray 3.5 wich makes
>> extensive use of that hat (^) operator.
>
> And this is bug you are reffering to ? Why you not ask author of this
> example to correct this bug ? He probably know that his example is not 3.5
> compatible.

Okay. I said "bug" because some other ppl previousely said that this is a 
bug. I found some older postings about ;) However.

>> Replacing it by its pow function make the source bigger and (perhaps) not
>> more readable.
> 
> Don't ask for not readable languages, please :-)

Hae? *g* I'm pretty sure that you either misunderstood me or you're just 
kidding ;)

Greets,
Christian.

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In article <upofkucs1srus56m3mmuv6k3nfaddog63r@4ax.com> , ABX 
<abx### [at] babilonorg>  wrote:

> Don't be soo detailed. Note about it is distributed with official release and
> is called in log:
>
> Change 1634 on 2002/05/30 by thorsten@host27
>   Removes "hat"-operator and replaces it with "pow"-function

Yes, the code was removed because it previously was added.  One adds and
removes code.  The change log is about a different level of detail - the
code level, not the feature level.

    Thorsten

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