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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: question about nullptr
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2024 14:11:28 +0200
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On 11.07.2024 04:38, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Jul 2024 11:08:53 +0200, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
> 
>> To me it's more likely that because of that it had been deliberately
>> added to support such desires, and less likely that the C-standards
>> folks need to learn "C" and wouldn't know what 0 as a pointer value
>> would mean or that it has a clear semantic in such pointer contexts.
> 
> Back in the 1980s: “I like C because it’s not Pascal.”
> 
> And now: yet another Pascal feature added to C.
> 
> Of course, we called it “nil” in Pascal. Which is a name that comes from 
> Lisp.

You're replying to (part of) my post, so I wonder what do you want
to say (or allege) here?

Janis