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30 Jul 2024 12:24:08 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Bugs with string/macro handling  
From: Mark Wagner
Date: 8 Nov 2001 01:09:33
Message: <3bea219d@news.povray.org>
Thorsten Froehlich wrote in message <3be9a026@news.povray.org>...
>In article <3be76148$1@news.povray.org> , "Mark Wagner"
><mar### [at] gtenet> wrote:
>
>> While trying to code a binary search tree in POV-Ray for Windows, I've
come
>> across a number of bugs in how POV-Ray handles strings and macros.  Scene
>> files are in beta-test.binaries
>>
>> The "All errors.pov" scene file is the minimal scene file to produce the
>> sequence of errors listed in this message.  The "minimal.pov" file is the
>> minimal scene file to produce some of the listed behaviors.
>
>Are you by anyx chance returning a #local as a macro result somewhere?


I've been very careful to avoid that.  The "return statements" are:
    concat(L, ";", R, ";", V, ";", D) /* Where L, R, V, and D are macro
parameters */
    (_BST_TEMP - 1) /* _BST_TEMP is a local */
    true
    false

None of these statements returns a #local directly.

--
Mark


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