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Re: VB
- To: dewar at gnat dot com
- Subject: Re: VB
- From: Florian Weimer <Florian dot Weimer at RUS dot Uni-Stuttgart dot DE>
- Date: 31 Jan 2001 13:39:26 +0100
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <20010130172009.7A8D634D80@nile.gnat.com>
dewar@gnat.com writes:
> Assuming there are no IPR issues (with VB, that is not obvious), then
> there will be a front end if someone (e.g. you :-) develops one.
Microsoft has patented a method to quote alomost arbitrary character
sequences so that they can be used as an identifier (IIRC the '[]'
syntax in VB). Any VB implementation will probably have to infringe
several OLE patents as well.