From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 7 12:14:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA26385 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 12:14:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA26362 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 12:14:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id NAA25201; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 13:13:54 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.1.19981007131127.041747f0@mail.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 13:12:45 -0600 To: Mike Smith , Chuck Robey From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Microsoft has a patent on [] (fwd) Cc: FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199810071857.LAA01683@dingo.cdrom.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 11:57 AM 10/7/98 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: >> 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! > >It's real, but it involves taking a character string between separators >(eg. []) and passing it to a run-time evaluator contained in a library. Not quite. What it means is that there's late binding. In other words, any INTERPRETER that can take an expression as an array subscript is covered. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message