In article <Xns### [at] 204213191226> , che### [at] sympaticoca
(Coridon Henshaw) wrote:

> Parsing fails on line 248 of shapes.inc when the Spheroid macro attempts to
> use 'Center' as a parameter name.
>
> If this can't be fixed in the parser, could the standard includes be
> modified so their parameter names are all lower case (like all other Pov
> keywords) or otherwise mangled to reduce the chances of collisions with
> user macros?  Coming up with macro names that don't collide is a real
> headache as long as this bug is in place because so name good names are
> already wasted on macro parameters.

Well, how is a limitation going to be removed if nobody in the past four years
complained about it?

It isn't a new limitation in 3.5 also you seem to give that impression.
Having the same name twice in the same namespace simply cannot work.  It is
definitely not a bug and the documentation explains the namespace rules.

    Thorsten

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