Renaming Void#

José Pedro Magalhães jpm at cs.uu.nl
Wed Dec 18 13:07:09 UTC 2013


+1


On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Edward Kmett <ekmett at gmail.com> wrote:

> The change makes sense to me. Others?
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Krzysztof Gogolewski <
> krz.gogolewski at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Small bikeshedding: I propose to rename recently added Void# (in
>> GHC.Prim) to Unit#, and void# to unit#. As far as I understand, this type
>> is the unboxed equivalent of () (i.e. single-element type) rather than Void
>> (i.e. empty type). The name Void# might be reserved for a type which has
>> completely no inhabitants. Any comments?
>>
>> KG
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