Re: self = [super init], nil?
Re: self = [super init], nil?
- Subject: Re: self = [super init], nil?
- From: Fritz Anderson <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 15:44:16 -0500
On 10 May 2010, at 3:18 PM, Henry McGilton wrote:
> By the way, I concur with Thomas Davie: treating a pointer as a Boolean makes me nervous.
It shouldn't. Until recently, there was no such thing as a Boolean in C; there was only the distinction between zero and nonzero. NULL-is-zero-is-false (semantically) is as ironclad an invariant of the language as the if statement. People should be able to read idiomatic C without needing Purell.
— F
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