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> ASCII has NUL as well

Yes, this is why C-strings can't be used for ASCII, because C-strings can't contain NUL as a character.

> You're looking for nil. So it should be four stars?

nil isn't a null by the definition this article is using, because it's not a subtype of every reference type.




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