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26 Apr 2024 02:45:26 EDT (-0400)
  Re: POV-Ray v3.8.0-alpha.10011104  
From: clipka
Date: 14 Jan 2019 10:54:54
Message: <5c3cb0ce$1@news.povray.org>
Am 14.01.2019 um 16:18 schrieb William F Pokorny:

> Just noticed another interesting thing in the tests that did run. The 
> attached file has not parser cleanly since v3.6.1. Generating the 
> following error with v3.7:

I presume you mean to say that it worked in v3.6.1, but not in v3.7, 
correct?

> File 'Sig07_works_v361_earlier.pov' line 1: Parse Error: Unexpected 
> additional
>   '.' in floating-point number
> Fatal error in parser: Cannot parse input.
> Render failed

Those are some mean pieces of scene code; no surprise they catch the 
parser with its pants down ;)

> It parses and runs cleanly again with the updated parser. Intentional?

No, just a lucky punch. Turns out sometimes throwing away and rewriting 
old code fixes things you didn't even know were broken.


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