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From: merriman@ccavax.camb.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Seven Original Sins of K&R (Long)
Message-ID: <32887.270268ba@ccavax.camb.com>
Date: 28 Sep 90 01:01:46 GMT
References: <12780@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <1990Sep26.163927.26084@dg-rtp.dg.com> <1990Sep26.193626.721@phri.nyu.edu>
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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.
> 
> What about this for a portable way to define NULL:
> 
> #define NULL (""[1])
> 
> would that work?
> --
> Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute
> 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
> roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu -OR- {att,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy
> "Arcane?  Did you say arcane?  It wouldn't be Unix if it wasn't arcane!"

NULL is a pointer type! NUL is an ASCII character!