Skiba <abx### [at] babilonorg>  wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Jul 2002 08:27:31 -0400, "cadman"
> <REM### [at] povraycouk> wrote:
>> The docs state that when using a #read directive into an already #declare'd
>> variable, POV will perform type checking.  I.e. I read that to mean that the
>> following shouldn't work:
>> -----------------------------------------------
>> #declare MyString="Hi mom!"
>> #fopen f "MyFile.txt" read
>> #read (f,MyString)
>> -----------------------------------------------
>> if Myfile.txt contains the text "<1,1,1>" (with no quotes)
>> But it does.  Is this a bug, or something I'm doing wrong?
>
> Can't verify this currently but perhaps this is connected with type checking
> when array entry is readed since you can't have different types in one array ?
>
> ABX

In any case, this is the wrong group for this discussion.  This group is for
discussion of the POV-Ray source code, not the documentation or usage of
POV-Ray.

    Thorsten

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