the nil pointer is not zero

[Walter Bright]

In article <14516 at smoke.brl.mil> gwyn at smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
/I don't think so.  What good would it do you to know how a null pointer
/is represented?  There is nothing useful you can do about that.

1. Explanations of how C works become much simpler (note the endless debate
   on usenet about NULL and 0). Making C more understandable with fewer
   counter-intuitive rules is useful.

2. You will be able to reliably be able to use memset and calloc to initialize
   structures containing pointers.