A new one on me...

[brian_helterline]

bzs at world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:

>In a pd program I ran into a line like this:
>
>	if(c == '')
>	...

>Sun 4.0.3 cc gives me a non-fatal error (empty character constant.)

>Is there any meaning assigned to this? I assume it meant something in
>Turbo/C (under which the program was developed.)

>It surprised me enough that I thought the language lawyers would be at
>least amused. Darn, we could have used that for our favorite feature!
>-- 
>        -Barry Shein

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	I believe the code was comparing c to the null character '\0' 
	although I have never seen an C that looked like that.


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