Void type in base

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Mittwoch, den 17.07.2013, 15:27 -0400 schrieb Edward Kmett:
> Now the Data.Void.Unsafe module provides that functionality (as
> unsafeVacuous) and vacuous itself is provided for compatibility with
> code that used it, and is left in case we ever get something in
> Functor that lets us apply newtype coercions directly to the Functor's
> parameter.

how would lifting newtype coercions to functors help here:
  vacuous :: Functor f => f Void -> f a
Void is not a newtype of a.

Greetings,
Joachim


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