• From: Mark Birbeck <Mark.Birbeck@i...>
• To: xml-dev@i...
• Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 00:22:47 -0000

Tim Bray wrote:
> Mark Birbeck wrote:
> >If I want to store my data in reverse-Polish Hamming-coded
> >object structures, using the eyelids of lizards to represent base-4
> >numbers (two lizards per byte), then that's up to me. 
> 
> You'd better not do that; it's covered by US Patent 4,234,611. -Tim
> 

Ha! I was sitting here waiting to see who was going to take the trouble
to pull me up on miscounting the number of lizards that make up a byte,
and I thought this was going to be it. Well done everyone for resisting
the temptation!

Regards,

Mark

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