Why is null lowercase?

[Phil Lavoie]

On Friday, 25 January 2013 at 16:11:57 UTC, Maxim Fomin wrote:
> On Friday, 25 January 2013 at 14:22:20 UTC, Don wrote:
>> On Friday, 25 January 2013 at 01:17:44 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
>>> On 01/24/2013 12:42 PM, Matthew Caron wrote:
>>>
>>> >> for not null checks
>>> >>
>>> >> if ( ptr !is null) ...
>>> >
>>> > And too much perl has me wanting to write:
>>> >
>>> > if (ptr is not null)
>>>
>>> IIRC, the !is operator is thanks to bearophile.
>>
>> No, it's from 2002 (well, it was !==, renamed to !is in 2005).
>> Bearophile only joined us about the time D2 began, in late 
>> 2007.
>
> It would be nice a to have a wiki page about D history written 
> by old-timers.
I vote for that too!