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  Re: [function pattern]  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 7 Sep 2001 14:27:34
Message: <3b991196@news.povray.org>
In article <3b98f0a9$1@news.povray.org> , "Trevor Quayle" 
<Tin### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:

> Someone else probably has a better answer, but I noticed this too.  It seems
> the operand *must* be declared as an operand before being used in the
> function, i.e.,
>
>  #local Faktor=<1,1,1>*0.75;
> #local Fx=Faktor.x;

Yes, unfortunately this is required right now.  I am not sure this will get
changed in 3.5 because it has to do with handling vectors in function which
isn't supported in 3.5.  It will change in 4.0 of course and I will look
into allowing at least such a simple case in 3.5.


    Thorsten


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