while(++this);[s]Software[/s] patents are a disease.
Amos ([Edit]Leaving this because I'm honestly not sure how I typed that!?[/Edit])
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And by the way, obvious to someone with field experience is not the same obvious to someone with no field experience.
The clerks don't generally have enough experience or other special record necessary to realize that something is triviality wrapped up in context. This is why a patent on matrix multiplication exists.
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Soma