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From: lyndon@orthanc.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 13:20:23 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [TUHS] Comments in early Unix systems
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> 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,

In the '\0' case I have a preference for NUL, but admittedly it's easy to 
confuse/typo with NULL.  That convention follows from my habit of enuming 
ASCII constants with their three-letter 'names' (e.g. CAN, DLE, ...).

--lyndon