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From: maunz@warwick.ac.uk (The Teenage Student WINJA Turbot)
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Subject: Re: Seven Original Sins of K&R (Long)
Summary: Bleugh
Message-ID: <1990Sep27.073730.26575@warwick.ac.uk>
Date: 27 Sep 90 07:37:30 GMT
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In article <1990Sep26.193626.721@phri.nyu.edu> roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes:
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>What about this for a portable way to define NULL:
>
>#define NULL (""[1])
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>would that work?

	B	L	E	U	G	H	!	!

This is a joke, right? 
("") is a null-terminated empty string, no?
Functionally equivalent to a char pointer which refers to an ASCII NUL or
char (0), no?
(""[1]) is probably a char pointer to garbage, no?

Either this is a joke, or I have missed the point.
Either way I'm stupid.
I must agree with the poster/author of the 'original sins' about NULL though.
It would be nice if NULL had been made unnecessary by a standardised keyword
such as 'nullpointer' or something. But nobody could have expected K & R to
have crystal balls.

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