Chambers <Ben### [at] gmailcom_no_underscores> wrote:
> Omitting these parameters is not the same as saying you don't care; it
> is still saying that you want a very specific set of parameters, just
> that these parameters happen to be the default ones.

That's wrong.

Because it *may* indeed be saying that you want the default values - yet it
*may* also be saying that you *really* don't care. Nobody can tell. Neither
POV-Ray, nor a casual user browsing the scene code.

At any rate, from all statements you can possibly make, not specifying
parameters explicity is the very closest you can come to stating that you don't
care.

So if a scene author *definitely* wants (or even just suggests) a certain value
that *happens* to be the default, then he'd better explicitly specify that
value. If only to indicate his choice to someone reading the code.

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