Re: [Pan-users] article-cache v 0.139

[Rhialto]

On Mon 01 Oct 2012 at 11:43:08 +0000, Duncan wrote:
> But usenetbucket's devs apparently didn't read past "null", and took it 
> to be "null-as-in-byte-0x00".

> I've often wondered just how often that ambiguity causes issues.  Here we 
> have a case in point!

Another issue that seems to confuse many people is that the character
with value 0 is called NUL, with one L, and not NULL, or null, or
anything else with 2 ls. All control characters 0-31 have 3 character
uppercase names. So if the RFC says "null", that also means it can't be
"NUL".

-Olaf.
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