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| − | <p>POV-Ray allows you to define identifiers for later use in the scene file. | + | <p>POV-Ray allows you to define identifiers for later use in the scene file. An identifier must be at least one characters long. It may consist of upper and lower case letters, the digits 0 through 9 or an underscore character ("_"). The first character must be an alphabetic character. See also: [[Reference:Declare and Local Directives#Declaring identifiers|Declaring Identifiers]]</p> |
| − | An identifier | + | |
| − | lower case letters, the digits 0 through 9 or an underscore character | + | <p class="Note"><strong>Note:</strong> In previous versions identifier names <em>were</em> limited to 40 characters. There has been a {{Change}} removing that restriction.</p> |
| − | ("_"). The first character must be an alphabetic character. | ||
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<p>All [[Reference:Keywords|keywords]] (reserved words) are fully lower case. Therefore it is recommended that | <p>All [[Reference:Keywords|keywords]] (reserved words) are fully lower case. Therefore it is recommended that | ||
your identifiers contain at least one upper case character so it is sure to | your identifiers contain at least one upper case character so it is sure to | ||
avoid conflict with reserved words.</p> | avoid conflict with reserved words.</p> | ||
Revision as of 14:59, 1 December 2016
POV-Ray allows you to define identifiers for later use in the scene file. An identifier must be at least one characters long. It may consist of upper and lower case letters, the digits 0 through 9 or an underscore character ("_"). The first character must be an alphabetic character. See also: Declaring Identifiers
Note: In previous versions identifier names were limited to 40 characters. There has been a Change removing that restriction.
All keywords (reserved words) are fully lower case. Therefore it is recommended that your identifiers contain at least one upper case character so it is sure to avoid conflict with reserved words.