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mlRe: Beginner with Cocoa
FROM : Bill Cheeseman
DATE : Tue Mar 25 22:40:51 2008

on 2008-03-25 4:57 PM, Scott Ribe at <email_removed> wrote:

> ...and the autorelease pool is pretty much unique.


Actually, it is unique. Apple has several patents on it. Apple's Ali Ozer
and Bertrand Serlet are credited as inventors, along with others.

I read all of the patents a long time ago, and they helped me to understand
how autorelease works. But you need a law degree or two to learn how to
program by reading patents, so I don't recommend it to everyone.... Oh, what
the heck, go to www.uspto.gov/patft/ and search on patents nos. 6,304,884,
6,026,415 and 5,687,370.

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Bill Cheeseman - <email_removed>
Harvard Law School, LL.B. '68, LL.M. '69

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