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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: BLAS
Date: 2000/05/17
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Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> writes:

> I am puzzled, it simply seems to me to be a matter of syntax.
> Syntactically x'base is a subtype mark, since it is a name
> that denotes a subtype. End of story. Does not seem like
> a non-obvious conclusion to me. ...

Lots of things are "obvious" once you know the right answer.  ;-)
How many times has the ARG come to a conclusion that is obviously right
to everyone, after much bitter argument?  ;-)

A lot of patent law hinges on this point, I think...
Sigh.

- Bob

P.S. I think current patent law in the US is a mess.