Talk:Null

message: The article 'nil' redirects to this article ('null'). As far as I know, nil stands for 'not in list'. That information should be available for someone wanting to read about 'nil'. Ask Google about 'nil "not in list"'. --DanielJanzon 10:40, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: In Pascal, a "null" pointer is called "nil". It is derived from Latin "nihil", meaning "nothing". Probably "not in list" is a backronym Bogdan | Talk 10:43, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: both of the following entries seem strange to me:
* n-u-l-l, a manga scanlation website
* Null, in science fiction null space is sometimes a dimension or space related to subspace.
The first one, since the liked page does not exist and I could not backtrace the appearence of n-u-l-l in the article's history (seemed to appear when the disambig page was created from the "full content" page) 
The second one, since the boldface Null differs much from all other entries, and since the "subspace" link does not point to a page named subspace, and there is no "subspace" section there, and there is absolutely no reference to null there.— MFH:Talk 17:05, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed; removed the null space entry. ~ PseudoSudo 23:49, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

text: Removed the n-u-l-l entry; it used to point to Null Website which was AfD'd for non-notability. ~ PseudoSudo 00:01, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  strange entries 

message: I added :/dev/null to the disambig list; someone going to this page looking for that entry wouldn't necessarily think to go through "Null, a special value in computer programming." to get there. ~ PseudoSudo 23:55, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:/dev/null]] 

message: I reverted a recent edit that added "the german word for 'zero'" to the list of links.  Wikipedia is not a dictionary, and especially not a German-English one.  Perhaps the German meaning (and other meanings in other languages) should be added to the Wiktionary entry instead.
--BlckKnght 14:38, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  German (and other languages) 

message: Does anybody else think that this page should be structured? e.g., there could be a category for nulls relating to computers having SQL and /dev/null as subpoints. --Whiteknox 16:36, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Structure 

message: It is defined in C language, "# define NULL 0". Because NULL means nothing. --Naohiro19 15:40, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  In a C language... 

message: Null for Computing SQL could be made more distinct briefly "a special marker and keyword in SQL indicating that a database value is missing" (Cf E.F.Codd, The Relational Model for Database Management Version 2 (Addison-Wesley 1990) page 197).Hblasdel (talk) 16:51, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Null for Computing: add a descrimination 

message: On, particularly unix-like, computer systems the presence or absence of an empty file, which thus exists in the directory structure but does not physically occupy a discrete space outside of that, is sometimes used to control the behaviour of the system e.g. /etc/nologin, /etc/fastboot and /etc/forcefsck. The manual page, e.g. shutdown(8) on some system calls them advisory files, but as they are also empty files is null file also a term that would be used to describe them? SlySven (talk) 21:33, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Null file 

message: Should this page not be defined as, and used as, a disambiguation page?--Filll (talk | wpc) 15:02, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguation page? 

message: I noticed this page has over 600,000 pageviews in the last month. It seems like this must be due to a bug in a Wikipedia app or script because that number is much higher than I would expect. Does anyone have an explanation? --Habst (talk) 13:37, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pageviews