Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: question about nullptr
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 19:49:08 -0400
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 20
Message-ID: <v74chk$u06v$1@dont-email.me>
References: <v6bavg$3pu5i$1@dont-email.me> <20240706054641.175@kylheku.com>
 <v6ragn$318o9$1@dont-email.me> <v7495c$tapm$3@dont-email.me>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Injection-Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2024 01:49:09 +0200 (CEST)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="ad3e0456a88cbbbaebc2f2fbb1d2357a";
	logging-data="983263"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/NYybCgtDX8b4YYuTqJZOerPDxM2MVnks="
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird
Cancel-Lock: sha1:tm9i1pJFiDTXubkqUrB9rEgD+x4=
Content-Language: en-US
In-Reply-To: <v7495c$tapm$3@dont-email.me>
Bytes: 1857

On 7/15/24 18:51, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> 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

Keep in mind that, in text mode, the <stdio.h> library routines use '\n'
in memory to represent whatever platform-specific method is used in
files to indicate a new line. For example, that can be a simple '\n' on
typical Unix-like machines, '\n\r' or '\r\n' on other operating systems,
and on a number of older systems, it could be converted to and from a
fixed-size block with a character count at the the beginning of the
block. There's no requirement that it be the Unicode line feed character.