Re: proof of cocoa superiority?
Re: proof of cocoa superiority?
- Subject: Re: proof of cocoa superiority?
- From: jgo <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 16:12:25 -0700
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At 2001-06-11 00:03:28 +0200 Stefan Arentz wrote:
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> On Sun, 2001 Jun 10 at 14:25:22 -0700, John C. Randolph wrote:
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>> On Sunday, 2001 June 10 at 12:02, Stefan Arentz wrote:
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>>> On Sun, 2001 Jun 10 at 11:30:35 -0700, John C. Randolph wrote:
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>>>> On Sunday, 2001 June 10 at 11:09, Stefan Arentz wrote:
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>>>>> On Sun, 2001 Jun 10 at 11:06:21 -0700, Deirdre Saoirse Moen wrote:
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>>>>> However, Apple's patents prevent a full re-implementation of
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>>>>> EOF at this time.
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>>>> Which patents? Do you happen to know the numbers or title?
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>>> As I recall, Apple has a patent on key-value coding.
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>> Uh. What's is that?
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> The ability to address the ivars of an object as if the object
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How's that different from object introspection? That's already
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present in plain ObjC right?
If you want to find some information, you look it up by a key.
It's more like STL maps... and sounds to me like "prior art"
since folks have been using it for decades. (This is as bad
as Ill-Begotten Monstrosities patenting use of blank spaces
to parse.)
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