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Apple Patents Programming Language Feature

posted by martyb on Monday January 28 2019, @05:30AM   Printer-friendly
from the Copywrong dept.

Apple's mobile phone language Swift has some sort of "optionals chaining" that Apple finds novel enough to patent.

From the discussion, it appears Apple is intentionally using an Apache 2 license to ensure that access to this feature remains freely available. (Insert obligatory IANAL disclaimer.) Any Soylentils care to weigh in?

https://forums.swift.org/t/apple-is-indeed-patenting-swift-features/19779

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  • (Score: 2) by darkfeline on Tuesday January 29 2019, @07:44PM

    by darkfeline (1030) on Tuesday January 29 2019, @07:44PM (#793700) Homepage

    Ah, just a Maybe monad. However, I don't trust any patent employees to recognize a binary operator if it was shoved up their ass, let alone prior art.

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