Seven Original Sins of K&R (Long)

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In article <1990Sep26.193626.721 at phri.nyu.edu>, roy at phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes:
> goudreau at dg-rtp.dg.com (Bob Goudreau) writes:
>>> The Second Original Sin was the failure to make "NULL" a keyword.
> 
> What about this for a portable way to define NULL:
> 
> #define NULL (""[1])
> 
> would that work?
> --
> Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute
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NULL is a pointer type! NUL is an ASCII character!