VB

Florian Weimer Florian.Weimer@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE
Wed Jan 31 04:47:00 GMT 2001


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.


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