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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: Whoops!
Message-ID: <1990Sep27.074302.26741@warwick.ac.uk>
Date: 27 Sep 90 07:43:02 GMT
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In article <1990Sep27.073730.26575@warwick.ac.uk> maunz@warwick.ac.uk (The Teenage Student WINJA Turbot) writes:
>In article <1990Sep26.193626.721@phri.nyu.edu> roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes:
>>
>>What about this for a portable way to define NULL:
>>
>>#define NULL (""[1])
>>
>>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?

Well that proves I'm stupid.
I meant (""[1]) is probably a garbage char, honest, your honour!

>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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