Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!gatech!rutgers!cmcl2!adm!smoke!gwyn
From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: use of NULL
Keywords: NULL zero 0 C Microsoft
Message-ID: <9582@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 4 Feb 89 06:49:13 GMT
References: <1167@unisec.usi.com> <5312@turnkey.TCC.COM> <1989Jan31.021121.13816@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> <1340@uwbull.uwbln.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
Lines: 11

In article <1340@uwbull.uwbln.UUCP> ckl@uwbln.UUCP (Christoph Kuenkel) writes:
>Why at all should I ever use NULL anywhere?

Some think that use of a mnemonic makes the code more intelligible.
If C were being designed now, I would recommend that "nil" be made
a language keyword.

>its much more obvious to write 0,  when I mean zero,  ((char *) 0) when
>I mean a zero character pointer, etc. etc.

Using 0 instead of NULL is perfectly acceptable.