"Ron Parker" <ron### [at] povrayorg> wrote in message
news:slr### [at] linuxparkerrfwicom...
| >
| >> What does #object do?
| >
| >It acts the same as "object" as far as I can tell...things like "#box"
| >also work. It works in the official version too, I guess it is just a
| >strange parser bug.
|
| I looked it up.  The tokenizer just ungets anything that doesn't belong
| after a # without raising any eyebrows.  You can even say
|
| #declare #foo = 12;
| #declare #bar = foo;
|
| without any problems.  Nice for obfuscation, but not guaranteed to stay
| that way.

Neither here nor there but... CodeMax syntax highlighting sees keywords
without the "#" and yet POV-Ray doesn't parse them okay; as expected of
course.

Bob

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