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Re: self = [super init], nil?
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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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 >Re: self = [super init], nil? (From: jeremy <email@hidden>)
 >Re: self = [super init], nil? (From: Scott Anguish <email@hidden>)
 >Re: self = [super init], nil? (From: Henry McGilton <email@hidden>)

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