Are we going to rename Control.Monad.void to something else, then? It really doesn&#39;t make sense to use the word to mean &quot;the unit return type&quot; there, but then use the exact same word for &quot;Data.Void&quot; to mean something else here.<div>

<br></div><div>Sorry I wasn&#39;t very clear; when I said &quot;we live in a C world,&quot; I was thinking of Control.Monad.void, which is definitely Haskell, but the naming of which is clearly C-inspired.<br><div><br clear="all">

<div>-- Dan Burton</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 1:53 AM, wren ng thornton <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:wren@freegeek.org" target="_blank">wren@freegeek.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

<div class="im">On 7/17/13 3:48 PM, David Luposchainsky wrote:<br>
&gt; +1 in genereal. A few remarks:<br>
<br>
</div>I&#39;m also +1 for the proposal.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
&gt; 1. We don&#39;t live in a C world.<br>
<br>
</div>Agreed. It&#39;s bad enough that C taught people to believe that &quot;void&quot; means<br>
the unit return type. But C aficionados will have to relearn all their<br>
terminology anyways when coming to Haskell. I don&#39;t see how renaming the<br>
Void type would really help them.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
--<br>
Live well,<br>
~wren<br>
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