On 2018-02-11, at 13:46:22, Seymour J Metz wrote: > Only in languages descended from C is there an issue with nulls in strings. > Certainly PL/I doesn't treat NULL any differently than any other character. > FSVO "descended from". I suspect the convention is older than C. Someone mentioned BCPL, which is an ancestor, not descendant of C.
-- gil
