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From: Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr>
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Subject: Re: Keyword "null" Question
Date: 17 Jan 2003 18:31:27 +0100
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Peter Amey <peter.amey@praxis-cs.co.uk> writes:

> Michael Bustillo wrote:
> > 
> > I'm currently attempting to reverse engineer some code so that it can be
> > converted to another language, and I've run across the following:
> > 
> >     if SOME_EVENT_TOOK_PLACE then
> >         null;
> >     end if;
> > 
> 
> I would have thought that this is most likely a hook for some planned
> future development.  

In that case there is something very important missing... some comments ;)

Pascal.

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