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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: question about nullptr
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 02:38:30 -0000 (UTC)
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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.