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<<On Mon, 07 May 2001 08:35:29 -0700 (PDT), John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> said:

> Err, NULL (for pointers) is capitalized,

That would be a bug.  The proper phrase is ``a null pointer''.  NULL
(or rather, `.Dv NULL') is correct if and only if the reference is
specifically to the C language macro so named (which is to say, almost
never).

-GAWollman


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