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Subject: Re: Why no null?
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Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1995 16:27:32 GMT
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While I can't claim that this was the designers intent, I've always considered
the use of NULL as a crude C hack. After all, zero is a perfectly valid pointer
address although it seldom points to anything useful - and all C arrays are
NULL (zero) based - using #f as precise indication of the absence of a valid
value makes more sense to me...
