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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 1998
Filed:
Aug. 03, 1994
Dennis Mark Canady, Redmond, WA (US);
Alan Carter, Bellevue, WA (US);
Ilan Gabriel Caron, Redmond, WA (US);
Mark Leslie Roberts, Bellevue, WA (US);
David Gordon Bradlee, Seattle, WA (US);
Steven E Lees, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Source code including application defined expressions and non-conforming identifiers are compiled to executable code. The source code is written with an application defined expression or non-conforming identifier enclosed between a predefined pair of matching separators, such as square brackets. When a sequence of characters between the predefined separators is encountered in the source code during compiling, a symbol table is searched for a matching identifier. If found, the characters are interpreted as a non-conforming identifier and bound to the matching identifier. If not found, the characters are interpreted as an application defined expression and bound to a function call for an evaluating function provided in an application library.