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28 Jul 2024 10:24:46 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Functions + variables  
From: Orchid XP v2
Date: 14 Apr 2006 17:08:10
Message: <44400f3a$1@news.povray.org>
>>(I imagine if you dig through the innards of the parser there's probably 
>>a perfectly good reason why it does this. LOL!)
> 
> 
>   I suppose that the reason is simply that the keyword in question
> has not been added to the user-defined-function universe,
> 
>   The SDL namespace and the user-defined-function namespace being two
> completely different and separate universes

Yeah, I had thought it would be something like that...

> causes indeed lots of
> confusion. I have actually thought about writing a short article
> about that at the povQ&T page.

Possibly... It makes sense when you know how it works.


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