Re: boost::nil

From: Bruce.Florman_at_[hidden]
Date: 2001-06-08 16:41:55

If "nil" and "null" are too widely defined, how about "naught"?

Or is there too much potential for humor in having a naught_t type?

--Bruce

--- In boost_at_y..., Chris Little <cslittle_at_r...> wrote:
> More bad news.  Apple has a number of types that look like pointers 
but
> after a series of typedefs are unsigned longs.  Since these types 
are
> treated like objects, most code initializes them to nil.
> 
> Chris
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Douglas Gregor [mailto:gregod_at_c...]
> > Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 2:48 PM
> > To: boost_at_y...
> > Subject: Re: [boost] boost::nil
> > 
> > 
> > On Friday 08 June 2001 02:26 pm, you wrote:
> > > Slightly different case.
> > >
> > > It is not only that there is a file that defines nil, it 
> > that there are a
> > > large number of files that depend on that definition.  For 
> > example, the GUI
> > > class library we use on the Mac, for legacy reasons, uses 
> > nil instead of
> > > NULL in default parameters, to initialize variables, etc. ...
> > >
> > > Chris
> > 
> > Unless they actually use it to initialize something other 
> > than a pointer, it 
> > doesn't matter.
> > 
> > 	Doug
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