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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Cannot use NULL as identifier?
Date: 30 May 2001 22:52:34 +0200
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Philip Anderson <phil.anderson@amsjv.com> writes:

> ASCII.NUL; -- one 'L', because null is reserved.

Correct observation, wrong explanation.

The official character name according to ANSI X3.4-1986 is indeed
'NULL', but package ASCII uses the official abbreviations, and 'NULL'
becomes 'NUL'.