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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Seven Original Sins of K&R (Long)
Message-ID: <1990Sep27.165237.1481@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <12780@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <1990Sep26.163927.26084@dg-rtp.dg.com> <1990Sep26.193626.721@phri.nyu.edu>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 90 16:52:37 GMT

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?

Uh, to do what?  NULL is a null *pointer*, not a '\0' character.

(That should be [0], and in any case this will not work in initializers
because it is not a compile-time expression under the official rules.)
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