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#Contemplating the void

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    07-Apr-86 06:18:21
Fm: Scott Ballantyne 70066,603
To: Steve Allen 73277,620

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Well, I think that maybe you will have pointers to stuff that isn't text someday. Besides, I think text should be unsigned. Period. I hate this default to signed characters in most new compilers. Maybe they don't like it either. Not all ambiguous pointers are APTR – look at the UserData field in the Window struct, for example. (Now, that seems to me like it should have been APTR. Oh well…) sdb