IFZ, IFT, IFF ?

[helium]

andalso and orealse have been used in ML for more than 20 years. MS can't patent these. AFAIK MS only wants to patent "is not" for Baisc-like languages.

[na_th_an]

Patenting a keyword is utterly stupid :lol:

Listen, I'm gonna patent "YADOOOBA", so if you create a programming language that uses a YADOOOBA keyword, I'll sue you.

[helium]

http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Pars...0040230959

Patenting a keyword is utterly stupid

definitely

[ShadowWolf]

patenting a keyword is utterly stupid which goes to show you how stuped the american paten system is.


in anycase that paten should be channelaged is like attamping to paten a verba in a spoken language.

[adosorken]

patenting a keyword is utterly stupid which goes to show you how stuped the american paten system is.

There is nothing wrong with the US patent system. Right now it just has a few bad administrators. Besides, instead of IsNot, you could always use Isnt.

[DrV]

patenting a keyword is utterly stupid which goes to show you how stuped the american paten system is.


in anycase that paten should be channelaged is like attamping to paten a verba in a spoken language.

I was going to bash you for your horrible English, but people seem to dislike that intensely, so I'll just say that points made in clear and grammatically correct language are much more powerful than thsoe writen innocrrrelty.

[helium]

Besides, instead of IsNot, you could always use Isnt.

Wouldn't "aint" be a cool operator?

[Hordeking]

The US patent administrators aren't stupid. They're overworked and really don't care, as they figure the courts can straighten any issues out if they come up.

As far as IFZ and IFN and such, I seem to recall those as being pneumonics in assembly, things like JNZ (Jump if not Zero) and JZ (Jump if Zero). And FB lets one use ASM.