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Subject: Re: question about nullptr
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Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> writes:

> Hmm.  I like the idea of a type-agnostic way to express a "zero"
> value, [but] C's use of 0 for all scalar types strikes me more as
> an historical accident than a design feature.

I don't think it was an accident at all.  It was chosen to be
consistent with how if(), while(), !, ?:, and so forth, all act.
There is a very consistent design philosophy there.  Sometimes
people who come from a strong Pascal background don't like it,
but personally I find the C model easier and more convenient to
work with than the Pascal model.