RE: ... the URI for "null"?

The notion of the "null pointer" is a common but not
universal programming language convention for something
you put inside a pointer variable that isn't really
a pointer.

While there is no corresponding convention for URIs,
I don't think "about:blank" really fills the role, since
it seems to be used for 'a blank HTML page', similar to
what you might get with "data:,".

You could, of course, define a variable which either held
a URI or was 'uninitialized', and define some string that
you took to mean 'uninitialized', but that definition would
be outside of the context of the definition of URIs themselves.

Received on Sunday, 6 January 2002 03:45:11 UTC