Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!nrl-cmf!cmcl2!brl-adm!adm!MAILER%ALASKA.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU From: MAILER%ALASKA.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Undelivered mail Message-ID: <12345@brl-adm.ARPA> Date: 13 Mar 88 06:28:43 GMT Sender: news@brl-adm.ARPA Lines: 37 Subject: Re: Header problems [Non-Deliverable: User does not exist or has never logged on] Reply-To: Info-C@BRL.ARPA Received: From UWAVM(MAILER) by ALASKA with Jnet id 9841 for SXJVK@ALASKA; Sat, 12 Mar 88 21:05 AST Received: by UWAVM (Mailer X1.25) id 6269; Sat, 12 Mar 88 22:04:47 PST Date: Thu, 10 Mar 88 16:07:15 GMT Reply-To: Info-C@BRL.ARPA Sender: Info-C List From: SIEMON Subject: Re: Header problems Comments: To: info-c@BRL-SMOKE.arpa To: Vic Kapella In article <3416@chinet.UUCP>, dag@chinet.UUCP (Daniel A. Glasser) writes: > > ... > In other words, though proper usage uses casts on NULL, common usage > does not. > > Daniel A. Glasser dag@chinet.UUCP Yes; you should realize that you were flamed so much because people were feeling deeply guilty about their own failure to practice what they preach. Here was a perfect scapegoat -- someone who could be read as not understanding what to do and could be lectured about it by those who REALLY intend to do it right, but somehow don't quite get around to it. (Please no flames from those who really do go to the effort to do it right -- you are a rare breed; for most of us, it is just too damned easy to "code" and too damned hard to think and to rewrite. Michael Siemon contracted to AT&T Bell Laboratories (these are my opinions, not theirs) ihnp4!mhuxu!mls