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		rwmj on July 22, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What's the point of std:monostate? You can't do an... Or "unit" in ML-derived languages and Haskell.

fire_lake on July 22, 2024 [–]

I always think of unit as one - it has exactly one possible value.

Void doesn’t exist in ML

millimeterman on July 22, 2024 | | [–]

Void definitely exists in ML.

  —- Haskell
  data Void

  (* Standard ML *)
  datatype void = Void of void

ackfoobar on July 22, 2024 | | [–]

log 1 = 0, so it has exactly zero bits of information.

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