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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Path: sparky!uunet!secapl!Cookie!frank
- From: frank@Cookie.secapl.com (Frank Adams)
- Subject: Re: Novice Questions
- Message-ID: <1992Sep09.205639.109507@Cookie.secapl.com>
- Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 20:56:39 GMT
- References: <1992Sep3.163337.13948@taumet.com> <715660909snx@trmphrst.demon.co.uk>
- Organization: Security APL, Inc.
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- The general meaning of "null" is something like "a special value of a type
- which represents the absence of any of the conventional values". See, for
- example, SQL, where every type is defined to have a null value. This is
- perfectly consistent with the use of "null" both for null pointers and for
- the character '\0' in C/C++. (Although it is *possible* to write programs
- in C which treat '\0' as just another character, neither the language nor
- its libraries encourage this. Instead, '\0' is treated as a special value
- which does not represent a character.)
-