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This thing wont be fairly enforced until the ISO is fined $50 Googol for publishing the C spec. .


Who invented null again? I need an address for the lawyers.


  Mr Nüll
  Null St
  0°N, 0°E
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_van_der_Nüll

(I assume this is a record error) https://goo.gl/maps/fDEbp5ymtTiYPMKZA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Island


  | I call my billion-dollar mistake. It was
  | the invention of the null reference in 1965.
  |
  | -- Tony Hoare
It might turn into a real billion-dollar mistake, not just a metaphorical one...


The address of null is zero, obviously




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