From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 7 13:15:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA10757 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 13:15:30 -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 NAA10733 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 13:15:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id OAA25823; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 14:15:15 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.1.19981007140512.0405ad00@mail.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 14:08:13 -0600 To: Chuck Robey From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Microsoft has a patent on [] (fwd) Cc: Mike Smith , FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <4.1.19981007131127.041747f0@mail.lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message