Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by gofixurcode 971 days ago
Ah a new standard! Perfect! Everyone will adopt this as clearly it is better and there’s no reason not to right? … right?
1 comments

Well it should be backwards compatible if you just use NULL everywhere where it is appropriate, so you wouldn't even have to sprinkle ifdefs all over the place. Code that uses 0 all over the place would probably have to be updated with the help of compiler errors and a static code analyzer.