On 22/10/2010 03:44, Rainer Deyke wrote: <snip>
A 'void' function returns, therefore it conceptually returns a value. For generic programming, it is useful to treat 'void' as a type like any other, except that it only has one possible value (and therefore encodes no information and requires no storage). If this is not implemented in D at the moment, it should be.
I've sometimes thought about this, and felt in any case that void.sizeof ought to be 0.
The problem now is that it would clash with void array slicing and pointer arithmetic, which rely on the size of void being 1.
Stewart.
