[OT] What should be in a programming language?

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Mon Oct 26 05:47:10 PDT 2009


Yigal Chripun Wrote:

> for instance there's special handling of void return types so it would 
> be easier to work with in generic code. instead of this compiler hack a 
> much simpler solution is to have a unit type and ditch C style void. the 
> bottom type should also exist mainly for completeness and for a few 
> stdlib functions like abort() and exit()

uint and void return types may be nearly equivalent for x86 architecture, CLI makes strong difference between them.



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