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From: tohoyn@janus.otol.fi (Tommi H|yn{l{nmaa)
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Subject: Re: Bytes and Characters
Date: 3 Nov 1994 08:34:05 GMT
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James Kanze US/ESC 60/3/164 #71425 (kanze@us-es.sel.de) wrote:
: In article <1994Oct25.144408.21066@datascope.com> sfc@datascope.com
: (Steve F. Cipolli (P/M)) writes:

: |> Also, while were on this topic, has anyone continued the fight to make "nil" a
: |> legitimate keyword; thus removing ambiguity like this:
[text deleted]

: I made a proposal along these lines.  It was not accepted.

What about
#define nil ((void*)0)