[metapost] fullcircle in metapost language

[Pierre Lorenzon]

From: Karel Horak <horakk at math.cas.cz>
Subject: Re: [metapost] fullcircle in metapost language
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:17:32 +0200

> 
> 
> José Carlos Santos napsal(a):
> >> as if the circle could not be scaled and shifted ! Why ? Did
> >> something change in language specification ?
> > 
> > I don't know, but it will accept
> > 
> >     cercle = fullcircle scaled (2*abs(As-I)) shifted I;
> > 
> 
> Syntactic rules did not changed:

  Are you sure ?


> 
> cercle = fullcircle scaled 2*abs(As-I) shifted I;
> 
> is wrong, but

  But was not threee years ago ! I still have somewhere the ps
  files produced by this command and they were perfectly
  correct !


  Pierre