On Saturday, 11 August 2018 at 05:01:50 UTC, docandrew wrote:
On Thursday, 9 August 2018 at 15:50:02 UTC, w0rp wrote:
A better name for this type is `never`, which is the name of the TypeScript type with similar semantics. https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/basic-types.html#never `nothing` is also a decent name, used in some other languages, but `never` makes it more obvious that a function never returns, and isn't as easy to confuse with `void`, which is a different kind of nothing.

+1 for "never" - it's descriptive and readable.

-Jon

+1 for "never"

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