Hi Warp, you recently wrote in povray.advanced-users:

>   I have seen this written in C:
> 
> double x = (double)(1.0);
> 
>   I'm just wondering why this wasn't enough:
> 
> double x = 1;

Maybe the programmer previous written that line as

DBL x = (DBL) 1.0;

and had DBL defined as float, but didn't want to add the 'f' onto the
1.0.

Then he did a global search and replace and replaced DBL with double?

- Lutz
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