"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote in message
news:3d0af371@news.povray.org...
> In article <3d0ae109$1@news.povray.org> , "Karl J. Anders"
> <kar### [at] webde> wrote:
> > - removing an operator in release candidate (!) #6 (^)
>
> This has been removed to avoid getting complaints from people who don't
> understand that there can be more than one way how something works.  The
> feature used to work one way and thus we got complaints from those
favoring
> the other way of operation.  Changing it would have resulted in the other
> group complaining.  Others seemed to complain just for the sake of
> complaining and they didn't mind the original (MegaPOV) implementation not
> working different.  As the feature is redundant anyway and was only a 3.5
> beta addition and was not in 3.1 it has been removed because we don't want
> to have to waste our time with endless pointless discussions how it works
> and how some people expect it to work.

Too bad... I liked that nifty ^

I'd like to plead its case, but obviously there was already exentsive
discussion about it and I missed it... Could anybody kindly point me to that
discussion ? So that I might see if I have anything of value to add.
(Probably not.)

TIA

Povingly,

Philippe

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