On Mon, Jun 06, 2022, Douglas McIlroy wrote: > > 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,
Oops. Didn't think of that. FWIW, I wasn't all that happy with the suggestion anyway. -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca
