On 2020-04-30 07:08, Kerry Liles wrote:
I always thought that some programmers did that as an "eye catcher"
to indicate that the value might nominally be zero but it will be
dynamically modified elsewhere...
(perhaps by an EX or worse - direct smashing)
A naked zero is not remarkable but   *-*  is sort of jarring... to the
reader.

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