POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : bug or trivial mistake ? : Re: bug or trivial mistake ? Server Time
7 Aug 2024 23:18:54 EDT (-0400)
  Re: bug or trivial mistake ?  
From: Ron Parker
Date: 26 Apr 2001 09:12:13
Message: <slrn9eg7le.7fd.ron.parker@fwi.com>
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:16:32 +0200, Wlodzimierz ABX Skiba wrote:
>#declare A=texture{average texture_map{[(1-P) C][P B]}}
>texture{gradient y texture_map{[0 B][.5 A][1 C]}}
>
>it causes error: ] expected but undeclared identifier 'A' found instead.

Ambiguity.  There's no way for POV to know that the last line isn't an
extra layer on the line before it, so as far as POV knows you're still 
declaring A.

The workaround is to put something else in between.

-- 
Ron Parker   http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html
My opinions.  Mine.  Not anyone else's.


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