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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Initializing arrays of char
Message-ID: <21149:Oct604:52:2190@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 6 Oct 90 04:52:21 GMT
References: <14796@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <9418:Oct503:06:2790@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <1990Oct6.011240.8538@kfw.COM>
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In article <1990Oct6.011240.8538@kfw.COM> dan@kfw.com (Dan Mick) writes:
> In article <9418:Oct503:06:2790@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
> >More to the point, an alert reader will notice that you haven't
> >accounted for the NULL. 
> Argh.  Dan, I'm shocked.
> That's NUL.  NULL is a pointer.  NUL is a character.

Only for people who think in C. I learned from Knuth, and I still write
/\ (well, can't really do a capital lambda on a non-APL keyboard) when I
think of the null/nil/meaningless pointer.

The null character is 0. Meaning 3 in my dictionary...

---Dan