From -2081574486222657472 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,f1dec9ce20a9c98f X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public From: Pete Becker Subject: Re: null pointers (was: Why's of C++ -- Part 1) Date: 1999/08/19 Message-ID: <37BB6D8B.ADD24984@acm.org>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 514601013 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Approved: Fergus Henderson References: <7opqvm$vpa$1@news.hal-pc.org><7p0mu0$36f$1@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <37B48FBA.2DE77379@tribble.com> <7pbjul$r9f$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7pc9h4$1kds$1@news.hal-pc.org> X-Original-Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 22:35:55 -0400 X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: news@news.unimelb.edu.au X-Trace: izvestia.its.unimelb.edu.au 935050903 14786 128.250.29.17 (19 Aug 1999 08:21:43 GMT) Organization: Road Runner X-Auth: PGPMoose V1.1 PGP comp.std.c++ iQBFAgUAN7u+iuEDnX0m9pzZAQGFmgF/W6KEGRTotCVJCWvEU/ClLicm9Z/PRGeK 528wAADtuOPs3YGy1T3hIoL+/g3UPku2 =etPG Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Aug 1999 08:21:43 GMT Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Greg Brewer wrote: > > I agree with you on you last point but how would you feel about a proposal > that would make calling > void f(char *); > void f(int); > with > f(NULL); > and > f(0); > no longer abiguous? > They are not currently ambiguous. Both call f(int). -- Pete Becker Dinkumware, Ltd. http://www.dinkumware.com --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://reality.sgi.com/austern_mti/std-c++/faq.html ]