In article <3954c63e@news.povray.org>, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> 
wrote:

>   Not directly related to the patch, but I have noticed that the number of
> reserver keywords is increasing almost alarmingly.
>   The more the reserver keywords, the more they contaminate the global
> namespace (and the higher the risk for an old scene to stop working).
> 
>   Just an idea: Could there be some way of not contaminating the global
> namespace with all these new keywords?

I don't think so...having keywords only be reserved in certain places 
would only add confusion. The only solution I can think of is to 
associate a version number with each keyword, so older scenes using 
#version could still work.
For new scenes, make sure to use at least one capital letter in every 
variable name, keywords always use lower case letters.

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