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From: arnold@skeeve.com (arnold@skeeve.com)
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 10:32:28 -0600
Subject: [TUHS] Comments in early Unix systems
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"Ron Natalie" <ron at ronnatalie.com> wrote:

> Frankly, I have immense distaste for the definition NULL.    Especially
> those implementations that try to fix it by introducing a spurious cast
> on it.

I'll agree with the latter part. But in my own code I try to be very
careful to use NULL for pointers, '\0' for end of string, and 0 for
numbers. Even though 0 could be used in all three cases, the different
forms make it much more clear what the type of data is that I'm working
with.

My two cents,

Arnold