Hello,
Question: What if "clean room approach" code is the same as the other.
Simplistically speaking, how many other ways can one write 1 + 1 = 2?
Even if you may be able, most people would write it that way anyway.
When you get right down to it, the set of standard mathematical and
other functions available to a programmer is limited, and is used by
everybody. Most people I think want to write efficient code as well.
To take one of my own situations, quite a while back I needed to have a
RoundTo() function in lazarus, so I wrote my own. At a much later point
in time I actually looked at the Delphi code and saw that the only
difference that code had was that it used the "IntPower" function.
Except for this difference, structurally the two roundto functions were
the same.
At the time I wrote my code I didn't use the IntPower function because I
didn't know it was available. So hypothetically speaking, if I knew
about the IntPower function at the time I wrote my code I probably would
have written the same code as Delphi's. Would my code have been infringing?
Regards,
George
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