In article <40bb1df8@news.povray.org> , Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg>  wrote:

>  The parser could use intelligent heuristics to decide which interpretation
> is correct.
>   The simplest heuristic would be: "This is the name of a keyword. If
> I use it as a keyword in this place, will it cause a syntax error? If

But can something like this always be determined in constant time?  If not,
and I think it cannot always be determined in constant time, it would make
parsing really slow.

    Thorsten

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