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[ILUG] EU Rejects Patent Software Law - For Now

[ILUG] EU Rejects Patent Software Law - For Now

Colm MacCarthaigh colm at stdlib.net
Fri Feb 18 15:07:53 GMT 2005


On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 01:47:09PM +0000, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote:
> Yeah, but what use is a procedure to test if two locations of memory are 
> equal, if the function/procedure doesn't attempt to do type checking to 
> ensure it's operating on memory, as opposed to any old variables where 
> you'd have to go out of your way, to break the static inline with a cast ?

I know, how have we survived with operators such as =, ==, !=, <, >, +, -
and so on? It really must be time to ditch them. 

-- 
Colm MacCárthaigh                        Public Key: colm+pgp at stdlib.net



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