How come include file patent isn't mentioned in position paper?
Marco S Hyman
marc at dumbcat.sf.ca.us
Sun May 12 11:26:38 AEST 1991
In article <BZS.91May10200405 at world.std.com> bzs at world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
>
> From: barmar at think.com (Barry Margolin)
> >This sounds much fancier than the standard #include file mechanism. Most
> >#include facilities don't have any way to specify portions of files, only
> >whole files.
>
> Sure they do:
[[ description of #define method of partial file inclusion deleted ]]
Some compilers provided support for partial file inclusion, too. The
Burroughs algol (and derivative) compilers had a compiler command named:
$ include <file option> <start option> <stop option>
You could do things like
$ include "filename" 100 500 % include lines 100 - 500 from "filename"
and then later in the code say
$ include % includes the remainder of the last file.
I just refreshed my memory from a book published in '77. The idea could be
much older than that. Certainly it's nothing new.
> Is any of this relevant to the issue?)
Don't know.
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