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From: Muttley@dastardlyhq.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types"
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2025 15:53:21 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 2 Apr 2025 16:38:03 +0100
bart <bc@freeuk.com> gabbled:
>On 02/04/2025 16:26, Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote:
>> On Wed, 2 Apr 2025 16:59:45 +0200
>> David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wibbled:
>>> On 02/04/2025 16:05, Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote:
>>>> I suspect the people who are happy with C never have any correspondence
>with
>>>> anyone from the committee so they get an entirely biased sample. Just like
>>>> its usually only people who had a bad experience that fill in "How did we
>do"
>>>
>>>> surveys.
>>>
>>> And I suspect that you haven't a clue who the C standards committee talk
>>> to - and who those people in turn have asked.
>> 
>> By imference you do - so who are they?
>> 
>>> 11. nullptr for clarity and safety.
>> 
>> Never understood that in C++ never mind C. NULL has worked fine for 50 years.
>
>
>And it's been a hack for 50 years. Especially when it is just:
>
>   #define NULL 0

(void *)0 I thought. But anyway, it works. Zero is zero is zero. There are no 
concerns about type or type size.