A new one on me...

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1989Nov28.221224.6106 at world.std.com> bzs at world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
>In a pd program I ran into a line like this:
>	if(c == '')

It's quite possible that in the original source code there was a control
character between the '', for example ctrl-G for ASCII BEL.  I've seen a
fair amount of code like that.

The control character could have been removed by somebody's mailer, text
editor, or numerous other "helpful" utilities.