Coffee: NULL == 0?

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On 22/10/2007 at 07:06, xxxxxxxx wrote:

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Cinema 4D Version:   8.5 
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I want to check if specific fields in a three-dimensional array are already set (the third dimension has only two fields). Although the term

if(edges[minPoint][maxPoint][0] == NULL)
      edges[minPoint][maxPoint][0] = value;
else
      edges[minPoint][maxPoint][1] = value;

seems to be valid, COFFEE treats 0 like NULL. Thus, if the field is filled with 0, the value gets overwritten.

How can i distinguish between 0 (zero) and NULL (emtpy field)?

Regards
Christoph Lauterbach

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On 22/10/2007 at 10:27, xxxxxxxx wrote:

COFFEE doesn't have pointers being typeless. NULL is usually 0 - historically it represents an invalid memory address 0x00000000F assigned to pointers (Assem/C/C++/Java/...). Go to this link for more info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_(computer)

There is no way to distinguish between 0 and NULL. All variable settings boil to numbers anyway - including pointers.

Do elements in edges[][][] represent pointers to something or the actual something itself?

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On 23/10/2007 at 01:11, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Thank you Robert. As far as I know, NULL is usually not 0 - while 0 is a value, NULL indicates a non-value.

Anyway, I solved it with

if(typeof(edges[minPoint][maxPoint][0]) == DT_NIL)
[...]

The elements in edges[][][] represent point indices (thus integers).

Regards
Christoph