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From: gsh7w@astsun1.acc.virginia.edu (Greg Hennessy)
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Subject: Re: Null revisited (briefly)
Keywords: NULL
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Date: 1 Mar 89 14:48:59 GMT
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Mark Nagel writes:
#If you knew the C language, you'd know that a character constant *is*
#an integer.  See K&R page 17 and 35.
#

Picking up the Bible (K&R) and quoting without permission from page 17

Any single character can be written between single quotes, to produce
a value equal to the numerical value of the character in the machine's
character set; this is called a {\it character constant}. So, for
example, 'A' is a character constant; in teh ASCII character set its
value is 65, the internal representation of the character A.

and page 35 says

A {\it character constant\/} is a single character written within
single quotes, as in 'x'.

end quotations of K&R ISBN 0-13-110163-3 (aka first edition).
 

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