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19 Apr 2024 21:00:58 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Reserved keyword "steps" ?  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 5 Dec 2017 11:20:00
Message: <web.5a26c646f4d338f65fcfeeda0@news.povray.org>
clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> Officially that would have been Thosten Fröhlich, but judging from the
> change description he may just have merged other people's changes:
>
> "Merged in photons, new light groups, more isosurface functions,
>  "hat" token as exponent sign in express.cpp, lighting changes,
>  normal bug fix and various other small fixes and extensions"
> (Perforce change 237, 2000-06-26)
>
> `u_steps` and `v_steps` already existed at that point.

Most likely this was either old photons or old isosurface code. I.e. the hat
token functionality was removed, photons and isosurfaces were rewritten. So this
is a leftover. But given this was 17 years ago I don't recall which code might
have used it.

Thorsten


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