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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: question about nullptr
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 16:32:28 -0700
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
> On Fri, 12 Jul 2024 14:19:19 +0100, Richard Harnden wrote:
>> Don't you use '\n'? Surely nobody would say 0x0a?
>
> Why not full symbolic Unicode names, à la Python:
>
>     "\n" == "\N{LINE FEED}"
>
> ⇒
>
>     True

Because C doesn't have that feature and is not expected to any
time soon, because C doesn't specify that '\n' is line feed, and
because using something like "\N{LINE FEED}" to denote a simple
newline charater would be silly because '\n' is already standard
and universally recognized by all C programmers.

Why do you ask?  Seriously, why did you ask this?

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */