> I propose a radical solution to the problem of defining \&: return
> to the cstr54 definition,

Hear! Hear!

> if we must find a convenient, shorter alternative, "null
> character" seems the best choice,

You must be joking. That would be a gratuitous clash in
terminology for a large fraction of groff users. Everybody
who's ever written a C program knows that the null
character is ASCII NUL, the terminator of string objects,

Doug

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