Re: Patents

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From: Raul Rockwell
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 1991 22:03

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I wrote:
      screen =: (cursor ~: hot_spot { screen) hot_spot } screen

but left out a comma... should have been

      screen =: (cursor ~: hot_spot {, screen) hot_spot } screen

Also, note that this is just a model.  One could use functions
screen_get and screen_put instead of some variable assignment.

Also note that the above method is not likely to be efficient (with
current implementations of the matrix manipulation language I used).

That's the point -- something is being done here which is different
than some patent, yet it would be considered to be doing the same
thing because the results look the same.

-- 
Raul <rockwell@socrates.umd.edu>

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