Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Janis Papanagnou Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: question about nullptr Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2024 14:11:28 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <20240706054641.175@kylheku.com> <877cdyuq0f.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <2ckiO.19403$7Ej.4487@fx46.iad> <87plrpt4du.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <9bCiO.7108$sXW9.3805@fx41.iad> <87jzhwu5v9.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <20240708001722.280@kylheku.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2024 14:11:29 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="7e24fb79a28a45af495c0a566d02a460"; logging-data="3180634"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+gC026MXhc98TWCIEsZqfr" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZqAKcRHQeG3UbyX7GgyiHLHxYzI= In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2138 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