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11 Jan 2026 09:24:53 EST (-0500)
  Re: Ambient and diffuse for include files?  
From: Bald Eagle
Date: 9 Jan 2026 21:15:00
Message: <web.6961b4f9485c224d1f9dae3025979125@news.povray.org>
Cousin Ricky <ric### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> On 2026-01-08 02:57 (-4), jr wrote:
> >
> > right, I used '#version version' as per "recommendation", see last sentence(s)
> > on the page:
> > <https://wiki.povray.org/content/Reference:Numeric_Expressions#Built-in_Variables>
>
> I read that paragraph a long time ago, and it didn't make sense to me.
> Now I'm reading it over and over, and I still can't figure out what it
> means, or why I should use that construct.

I will agree that that paragraph is poorly phrased.
It may even have typos.

In any event, I think that the general idea is to just be able to declare the
version to be whatever software version is used. (automatically)
You can get rid of the warning/error using boilerplate and without having to
know what version is being used.

Then you can do whatever manual versioning stuff afterwards.

At least that seems to be the intent. (?)

- BE


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