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From: Dave Dunn
Subject: Haven't Seen This Listed
Date: 10 Dec 2001 07:28:44
Message: <3C14AA61.9479F4D8@aol.com>
I have encountered a strange phenomenon in Beta 8. I went to include a
file in a scene, and received an "Object or directive expected but {
found" error on the camera bracket when I called my object. I went back
to the include file that declares several unions, and found that the
first three unions work fine, and then the error occurs. If I call the
final object *without* curly braces, it works, which should not occur.
Calling the object in this way in the scene file generates the error. I
tried the scene in MegaPOV 7 and it runs perfectly, and there are no
version-specific elements to the code, so I don't think it has anything
to do with the syntax. Has anyone else had this problem?

Athlon 1G with 640M, Win ME


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From: Dave Dunn
Subject: Re: Haven't Seen This Listed
Date: 10 Dec 2001 13:26:19
Message: <3C14FE2D.D070D954@aol.com>
Dave Dunn wrote:

> >I have encountered a strange phenomenon in Beta 8. I went to include a
> >file in a scene, and received an "Object or directive expected but {
> >found" error on the camera bracket when I called my object.

Well, I found the source of the problem but the answer is equally puzzling.
The problem was caused by a missing # before a declare in the include file.
All previous versions of POV-Ray have issued a warning but still rendered.
It seems that 3.5 generates an error that is not explicitly related to the
missing #.


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From: Thorsten Froehlich
Subject: Re: Haven't Seen This Listed
Date: 10 Dec 2001 13:44:25
Message: <3c150289@news.povray.org>
In article <3C14FE2D.D070D954@aol.com> , Dave Dunn <poi### [at] aolcom>  
wrote:

> Well, I found the source of the problem but the answer is equally puzzling.
> The problem was caused by a missing # before a declare in the include file.
> All previous versions of POV-Ray have issued a warning but still rendered.
> It seems that 3.5 generates an error that is not explicitly related to the
> missing #.

Then the problem is known:

Message-ID: <ZrphVDA7lAF8EwA+@econym.demon.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 01:01:47 +0000
From: Mike Williams <mik### [at] nospamplease>
Reply-To: Mike Williams <mik### [at] econymdemoncouk>
Newsgroups: povray.beta-test
Subject: Known Bugs Dec 10
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