[OT] Microsoft filled patent applications for scoped and immutable types

[monarch_dodra via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 30 August 2014 at 09:00:24 UTC, Jérôme M. Berger 
wrote:
> Timon Gehr wrote:
>> On 08/28/2014 11:53 AM, "Jérôme M. Berger" wrote:
>>> ...
>>>
>>> 	I should have said that in D it is used when declaring an 
>>> instance
>>> (i.e. at the place of the instance declaration) whereas in the
>>> patent it is used when declaring the type. For a patent 
>>> lawyer, this
>>> will be enough to say that the patent is new.
>>> ...
>> 
>> This works as expected:
>> 
>> immutable class C{
>>      // ...
>> }
>> 
> 	Then we should be ok, assuming we can prove it already worked a
> year and a half ago.
>
> 		Jerome

Who said anything about it having to work?