A Pointless Library Proposal

[Philippa Cowderoy]

On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Samuel Bronson wrote:

> On 23 Oct 2006 22:05:58 -0400, kahl at cas.mcmaster.ca
> <kahl at cas.mcmaster.ca> wrote:
> 
> > I'd say that ``Void'' is not a desirable candidate
> > since too many people know C,
> > and the C type ``void'' corresponds to ``()'' (or ``IO ()''...)
> 
> So how come whenever I say that, someone invariably corrects me that
> C's void type is uninhabited, whereas the () type is inhabited by ()?
> And that a real void-alike wouldn't have any constructors?
> 

Because C's an impure language - and thus it's possible to do something 
meaningful without returning a value. Oh, and because they're right.

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