Thomas Baier <tho### [at] ibmnet> wrote:
: Please keep in mind: POV 2.2 syntax was a little bit simpler than 3.1.
: Anyway, the main problem with L&Y was a shift/reduce problem during comma
: parsing.
: There a lot of expression you could set a comma but you do not have to.




  I really like povray's syntax flexibility. For example, intead of having
to type:
  light_source { <1,2,3>, color rgb <1,1,1> }
you can type
  light_source { <1,2,3>, rgb <1,1,1> }
or
  light_source { <1,2,3>, <1,1,1> }
or
  light_source { <1,2,3>, 1 }
or
  light_source { <1,2,3> 1 }
or even
  light_source { <1,2,3>1 }

  Or another example: Instead of having to type:
  box { <-1,-1,-1>,<1,1,1> }
you can just type
  box { -1,1 }
or even
  box { -1 1 }
(although I don't really use this one)

  Don't ever change this to a less flexible syntax, please :)

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