Re: RFC 263 (v1) Add null() keyword and fundamental data type

[Tom Christiansen]

>Now, that's not accurate either.  "NUL" is simply a normalized form of "null",
>because all the ASCII special characters have three upper-case letter names.
>There is no doubt that the ASCII guys meant "null" by this.

All other matters aside, kindly consider this simple one: If ever
you thought homophones were bad, imagine then how to rely upon
nothing more than mere case distinction, an ancillary artifact of
our system of writing, in two distinct terms whose usages are not
radically different from each other but whose meanings most certainly
are, is an endeavour virtually guaranteed to be frequently misheard
and thus misconstrued when those terms are used in spoken discourse--as
they inevitably shall be.

--tom