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Re: [Chicken-hackers] deprecation of always?, never?, none?
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Thomas Chust |
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Re: [Chicken-hackers] deprecation of always?, never?, none? |
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Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:43:58 +0200 |
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Felix wrote:
> [...]
> "none?" is sort of weird, since there is no "none" type - every object
> is of some type.
> [...]
Hello,
that doesn't make none less of a type and it also doesn't make it less
useful — for example, in the context of type checking, you may want to
represent the fact that a function can never exit through its return
continuation by assigning the none return type to it.
Ciao,
Thomas
--
When C++ is your hammer, every problem looks like your thumb.
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- Re: [Chicken-hackers] deprecation of always?, never?, none?, Felix, 2011/08/22
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Thomas Chust <=
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