HaloO Damian, thank you very much for your explaination. I just want to hint the Perl6 community to the fact that there exists a US patent on geometric MMD:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ptxt&s1=ferragina.INZZ.&OS=IN/ferragina&RS=IN/ferragina I haven't check the relevance to Perl6 yet. Has someone access to the STOC'99 paper? -- TSa (Thomas Sandlaß)