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From: mccaugh@s.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: A new one on me...
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Date: 30 Nov 89 17:36:20 GMT
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Nf-From: s.cs.uiuc.edu!mccaugh    Nov 29 17:41:00 1989


 This is just a guess, but it seems that -- since '' might refer to the
 null string, which is indicated in C by the lone null-terminator '\0' --
 that the notation: c == '' (c being of type char) might be a local ver-
 nacular for: c == '\0'. (This is in spite of the fact that the null
 string should be indicated in C by "" rather than by ''!)

 Scott