From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 7 11:25:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA16372 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 11:25:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA16351 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 11:25:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA26518 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 14:24:24 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 14:24:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Microsoft has a patent on [] (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I just got this from another list, but it's so outrageous, I had to post it here (it certainly applies to us!) Apparently, Microsoft has patented array indexing! Take a look, it seems real! ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 20:02:50 +0200 (MET DST) From: David Stes Reply-To: objc-users@peti.gmd.de To: objc-users@peti.gmd.de Subject: Microsoft has a patent on [] It looks like we're in trouble with the use of [] in Objective-C. >From http://www.patents.ibm.com/details?patent_number=5742828 : INTL. CLASS (Ed. 6): G06F 009/45; U.S. CLASS: 395/708 FIELD OF SEARCH: 395-700,701,702,705,707,708 ; ABSTRACT: Source code including application defined expressions and non-conforming identifiers are compiled to executable code. The source code is written with an application defined expression or non-conforming identifier enclosed between a predefined pair of matching separators, such as square brackets. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Portable Object Compiler Users Mailinglist To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message