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Re: VB

To: Scott A Crosby <crosby at qwes dot math dot cmu dot edu>
Subject: Re: VB
From: Florian Weimer <Florian dot Weimer at RUS dot Uni-Stuttgart dot DE>
Date: 31 Jan 2001 20:55:27 +0100
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10101311006130.1309-100000@qwe3.math.cmu.edu>

Scott A Crosby <crosby@qwes.math.cmu.edu> writes:

> > 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.
> 
> I'm curious about this quoting semantics?

AFAIK, you enclose them by square brackets, for example
'Object.[function](arg$)', where 'function' is the quoted keyword.

I'm no longer sure if there's really a Microsoft patent on that.  I
seem to remember a discussion in comp.lang.python which took place at
least four years ago, but can't find the patent. :-/

References:
- Re: VB
  - From: Scott A Crosby

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