11 May
2008
11 May
'08
9:09 a.m.
Um, I was encountering and recognizing times when I really needed an out-of-band "null", and the pain of representing such in C, shortly after I started serious programming in C (call it 1984-5). Is this really difficult?
Paul: Hmm, I'm not quite sure what you're driving at. Me neither.
Null pointers, EOF markers, didn't find specified key in some tree, etc.
Paul: So much time is wasted on making the thing work even if you have perfectly sound semantics. Still, that's a hundred times more preferable to c++ and its anomalies and contradictions. What was Stroustroup thinking of! :- Cheers, Paul