Re: rough first impressions

On Tuesday, April 15, 2003, at 04:59  PM, Raffael Cavallaro wrote:
> [...] has actually been patented, which raises legal issues as to 
> whether or not you can design a language to use this feature without 
> licensing it.

This is a bogus argument. Absolutely everything is patented. The only 
sensible path is to design as if there were no patents, until forced to 
do otherwise by some patent holder. This is also a sound legal 
strategy, as willful infringement gets a greater punishment than 
ignorant infringement.

James