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From: goudreau@dg-rtp.dg.com (Bob Goudreau)
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Subject: Re: Seven Original Sins of K&R (Long)
Message-ID: <1990Sep26.234406.3798@dg-rtp.dg.com>
Date: 26 Sep 90 23:44:06 GMT
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In article <1990Sep26.193626.721@phri.nyu.edu>, roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy
Smith) writes:
> goudreau@dg-rtp.dg.com (Bob Goudreau) writes:
> >> The Second Original Sin was the failure to make "NULL" a keyword.

Please keep your attributions straight; I did not write that sentence.

> What about this for a portable way to define NULL:
> 
> #define NULL (""[1])
> 
> would that work?

Nope; it's not even *defined* behavior to access beyond the end of
an array, which is what you've done.

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