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From: miker3@ix.netcom.com (Michael Rubenstein)
Subject: Re: null pointers (was: Why's of C++ -- Part 1)
Date: 1999/08/19
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On 19 Aug 99 08:21:23 GMT, Pete Becker <petebecker@acm.org>
wrote:

>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).

Am I missing something?  What if NULL is defined as 0L?
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