Void type in base

wren ng thornton wren at freegeek.org
Sat Jul 20 10:53:09 CEST 2013


On 7/17/13 3:48 PM, David Luposchainsky wrote:
> +1 in genereal. A few remarks:

I'm also +1 for the proposal.

> 1. We don't live in a C world.

Agreed. It's bad enough that C taught people to believe that "void" means
the unit return type. But C aficionados will have to relearn all their
terminology anyways when coming to Haskell. I don't see how renaming the
Void type would really help them.

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~wren





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