Architecture that extends types using extension methods (Microsoft patent)

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20100175048A1/en

by archielc • 5 years ago

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transfire• 5 years ago

Welcome to the bizarro world of software patents where prior art no longer matters.

earleybird• 5 years ago

The expression problem has been known for quite some time [0].

Final tagless[1] is an fp approach and Object algebras[2] is an oop approach to solving this problem.

Setting aside the timelime, reading the various claims it seems like Eric Meijer, Anders Hejlsberg et al still had a hard time obfuscating the math to make patentable claims. A naive read (on my part) of the claims looks like they wished to patent Object Algebras.

[0] https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/expression/expr...

[1] https://okmij.org/ftp/tagless-final/

[2] https://blog.acolyer.org/2015/11/13/scrap-your-boilerplate-w...

throwuxiytayq• 5 years ago

So much for C# being open-source, I guess? Is it even safe to fork this repo? https://github.com/dotnet/csharpstandard

Architecture that extends types using extension methods (Microsoft patent)

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