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William M Perry writes:

> (eq (following-char (point-max)) 0)
> t

That's a feature labeled `Gag me!'.  What else should it return?
Conceptually it's no worse than getchar() returning -1 at end of file
which I don't mind.

It looks like more of a problem in Emacs.  It is legal to have NUL
characters in a buffer, so you can't loop on a straight test against 0
anyway.
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