Seven Original Sins of K&R (Long)

[Henry Spencer]

In article <1990Sep26.193626.721 at phri.nyu.edu> roy at phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes:
>What about this for a portable way to define NULL:
>
>#define NULL (""[1])
>
>would that work?

Uh, to do what?  NULL is a null *pointer*, not a '\0' character.

(That should be [0], and in any case this will not work in initializers
because it is not a compile-time expression under the official rules.)
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