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Subject: Re: Microsoft has a patent on [] (fwd)
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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
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