On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 2:32 PM Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote: > Eric Sunshine <sunsh...@sunshineco.com> writes: > > On this project, the character mnemonic "NUL" is typically used, not > > "null" or "NULL" (which is typically reserved for pointers), so: > > s/null/NUL/g > > Correct but I did not think it is a per-project preference; rather, > "NUL is the name of the byte" is universal ;-)
Yes, the _mnemonic_ NUL is universal, but the character itself is sometimes named or described as the "null character". I was just being pedantic when "this project", by which I meant that we (on this project) prefer the mnemonic "NUL" over longhand "null character", whereas other projects may perhaps prefer "null character" or not care.
