[webkit-dev] Guideline for nullptr

[Dan Bernstein]

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> On Jan 6, 2014, at 11:55 AM, Darin Adler <darin at apple.com> wrote:
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> I suggest we use nullptr, rather than of 0 or NULL, for all pointer nulls in WebKit C++ sources. I don’t see any advantage to using 0 or NULL over nullptr, and nullptr has multiple advantages. Three obvious ones: Compile time error if accidentally passed to something expecting an integer, can be distinguished from an integer in function overloading, can tell it’s a pointer.
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> Any objections?
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> — Darin
> 
> PS: Maybe even instead of nil in WebKit Objective-C++ code?

In Objective-C++, nil is nullptr, so I suggest that we stick with the language convention of writing it as nil.