Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Initializing arrays of char
Message-ID: <1990Oct6.232047.28275@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <14796@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <9418:Oct503:06:2790@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <1990Oct6.011240.8538@kfw.COM> <21149:Oct604:52:2190@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 90 23:20:47 GMT

In article <21149:Oct604:52:2190@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
>> 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...

The capitalization here is significant.  NULL is a name for 0, used when
discussing null [note lower case] pointers in C.  NUL is the official
ASCII name for the character with bit pattern 0000000, often used as a
null character.
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