<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Daniel Duan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daniel@duan.org" target="_blank">daniel@duan.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>In the context of character sets, "nul" is the correct name for the 0 value. "null" only makes sense when we are talking about pointer-like references.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Oh, I see: "NUL-terminated" is a thing because "NUL" is the ASCII name. Still a little bizarre looking, though, especially if it's UTF8 rather than ASCII. I am less bothered by it now, thanks :)</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><br></div><div>This is my impression anyways.<br><br><div>Daniel Duan</div>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><div><div><br>On Jul 23, 2016, at 1:41 PM, Xiaodi Wu via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">World's shortest proposal:<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Introduction</b></div><div><br></div><div>In `String`, the methods `nulTerminatedUTF8` and `nulTerminatedUTF8CString` have the word "null" misspelled</div><div><br></div><div><b>Motivation</b></div><div><br></div><div>There is a typo</div><div><br></div><div><b>Proposed solution</b></div><div><br></div><div>Fix the typo</div><div><br></div><div><b>Impact on existing code</b></div><div><br></div><div>Emit a fix-it for existing code</div><div><br></div><div><b>Alternatives considered</b></div><div><br></div><div>Keep on spelling "nul" without the second "l"</div><div><br></div><div><b>Acknowledgments</b></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks to Andrew Trick for confirming that the existing spelling is bizarre</div><div><br></div></div>
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