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2 Sep 2024 06:15:47 EDT (-0400)
  Re: #let keyword(was: Previews of Ice Planet...)  
From: Chris Huff
Date: 3 Sep 2000 20:52:04
Message: <chrishuff-F17AC1.19534403092000@news.povray.org>
In article <slr### [at] tealhhjpat>, 
hjp### [at] SiKituwsracat (Peter J. Holzer) wrote:

> I would prefer if no keyword was necessary at all, just 
> 
>     # a = a + 5
> 
> I think this should be possible with minor changes in the parser, since
> keywords cannot be used as variable names anyway.

That might be quite possible...but you should always use upper case to 
avoid name conflicts, since new keywords are always lower case. :-)

It also looks like it might be easy to allow semicolons after every 
assignment, something that I wish POV already did.

-- 
Christopher James Huff
Personal: chr### [at] maccom, http://homepage.mac.com/chrishuff/
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