Just putting this out there as a suggestion - things I've recently thought could
be useful or have been bouncing around in the back of my mind.

New dot operators - .real and .imag, for when programming arrays of complex
numbers
#declare Complex = array [n] {<Real, Imag>, ....}

Then it would be easy to read variables as Complex[n].real and Complex[n].imag


I was running a scene in 3.7 after I wrote it in 3.7 Beta 2 and used the new
Built-In Variable tau.
I don't think a statement like #ifdef (tau) works.
Perhaps some way to determine from SDL if a name is reserved by POV-Ray?

Transposed array format.   Because the down then over format drives me nuts.
I think in over then down, especially when reading the definition in SDL,
because it's written on the screen over, then down.  :(

Secondary comment type which invokes a different color in the editor.
Could be useful for highlighting things if there was red text in a sea of green
commenting.

Command aliases.  A way to tell the parser to treat all instances of a statement
as a command to do "X"  - just like in a Unix shell.

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