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Date:      Wed, 07 Oct 1998 14:08:13 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Microsoft has a patent on [] (fwd) 
Message-ID:  <4.1.19981007140512.0405ad00@mail.lariat.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810071549200.15656-100000@picnic.mat.net>
References:  <4.1.19981007131127.041747f0@mail.lariat.org>

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At 03:52 PM 10/7/98 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
 
>So that includes awk, perl, tcl, .... and almost anything constructive I
>might want to do with the [] operator in C++.

It wouldn't include C++, but would include Perl, SNOBOL, BASIC, LISP....
In fact, it includes anything with late binding of function names, so
that you can define a function during execution and then use its 
return value to subscript an array.

>This is then just another example of software-patent insanity.  The only
>thing that gets me is that the damn thing is dated 1998.

The insanity isn't confined to software patents. The Patent Office issues
all kinds of ludicrous patents every year.

--Brett


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