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From: Disnel
Date: 20 Jul 2000 08:46:06
Message: <3976F48E.67E60C9F@itam.cas.cz>
For me, neither Normal nor Norm works :(((....

Tim Riley wrote:
> 
> Ron Parker wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 19 Jul 2000 12:09:19 -0600, Tim Riley wrote:
> > >Another problem is that "Normal" is a reserved word. When I changed it
> > >to something else (such as "Norm"), it worked.
> >
> > Is not.  Reserved words don't have capital letters in them.  Try it as
> > posted and see if it works that way.
> 
> I tried it as posted, then changed the variable names in the PlaceTree
> macro as suggested; neither would work (Normal was always equal to <0,0,0>).
> When I changed the variable name to Norm, it did work (placed a tree at
> each point). I realize that "normal" is reserved, but I can't explain why
> "Norm" works and "Normal" does not.


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