Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Abandon NULL for (0)
Message-ID: <1989Oct13.164144.28783@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Fri, 13 Oct 89 16:41:44 GMT

In article <10898@riks.csl.sony.co.jp> diamond@riks. (Norman Diamond) writes:
>>#define NULLF (FILE *)0
>
>Mixed feelings about this one...

Besides, what good is it?  One very seldom has to pass a null FILE pointer
to a function -- none of the stdio functions, the primary customers for
FILE pointers, accept one -- and that's the only place where the cast is
needed.  `if (f == NULL)' strikes me as no less readable than the equivalent
with NULLF, and it means exactly the same thing.
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