Here's an interesting one for you...

I've got a scene that won't parse; I get an error message half way 
through one of the include files. Here's a snippet of the source:

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#declare Thingy =
object
{
   sphere...
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I get an error on the line with the open bracket. The error reads

Parse Error: Expected 'object or directive', { found instead.

...ok, so that's strange.

But is gets stranger... if I comment out a certain macro call, the error 
dissapears! :-0 (The scene renders correctly. Trouble is, the bit I have 
to comment out is the main animation control function!)

* * *

OK, so I've now spent about 2 hours trying to find a cause for this 
bizzare behaviour... I eventually tracked down the source; there was an 
#fclose command without a file handle.

This is really irritating. Why can't POV-Ray just issue and error 
message if you reach the #end of a macro and the target for #fclose 
hasn't been reached yet?

Andrew @ home.

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