POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: Is this a bug, or am I missing something?: Re: Is this a bug, or am I missing something?

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Date: 3 Apr 2002 13:45:07
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On Wed, 3 Apr 2002 12:36:22 -0600, "Shay" <sah### [at] simcopartscom> wrote:
> > Perhaps this is an intended feature.
>
> yep!
> (docs) 6.2.8.5  Returning Values Via Parameters
> Sorry for the waste of time.

I'm not so sure it was wasting. Note 6.2.8.5 shows only #declare as example. In
6.2.2.2 there is a general rule described (or at least it is my interpretation)
that #local not influences identifiers outside of macro.

ABX

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