Date: 07 Oct 1998 22:05:27 +0200 From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>, FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft has a patent on [] (fwd) Message-ID: <xzpiuhwi1dk.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Brett Glass's message of "Wed, 07 Oct 1998 13:12:45 -0600" References: <Your message of "Wed, 07 Oct 1998 14:24:23 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810071419510.15656-100000@picnic.mat.net> <4.1.19981007131127.041747f0@mail.lariat.org>
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Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> writes: > At 11:57 AM 10/7/98 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > 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. So, how old is awk, anyway? twenty years? twenty-five? DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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