Null revisited (briefly)

[D. Jason Penney]

I strongly disagree with Bill Davidsen's suggestion for null-terminating
C strings.  I submit the following example as safer, cleaner, and more
legible:

char aString[20];

aString[0] = '\0';

'x' is a literal of type char.  Thus, '\0' is the char with value 0,
which is really what was intended here.

When you assign an int or a pointer to a character, the reader ends
up wondering if the type mismatch is unintentional.

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