Do not use "nil" to refer to ()
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I'm in favor of this change. These docs were added 5 years ago, but that was likely just moving them from somewhere else. A quick google search also didn't bring up any recent mentions of nil in context of Rust referring to the unit type. I only found results from 2011 and 2012.
What I'd like to get mentioned is void from languages like Java, C++ etc. I think it would be useful for people coming from those languages to know that () is basically equivalent to void (though it's a full type, unlike in some other languages). And yes I know that in languages like Haskell, void means something different (namely, bottom = never type). Maybe we can mention the equivalents to () in several languages?
We can include those changes in a new PR though. I'd just merge this when CI is green.
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@LukasKalbertodt I don't think I have sufficient privileges to tell bors to merge. CI is green now though. |
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@rossmacarthur Sorry for being imprecise. What I wanted to say is: "once the CI is green, I will merge". But then I went on a bike tour and @Mark-Simulacrum was faster. Thanks! |
Rollup of 5 pull requests Successful merges: - rust-lang#67797 (Query-ify Instance::resolve) - rust-lang#70777 (Don't import integer and float modules, use assoc consts) - rust-lang#70795 (Keep track of position when deleting from a BTreeMap) - rust-lang#70812 (Do not use "nil" to refer to `()`) - rust-lang#70815 (Enable layout debugging for `impl Trait` type aliases) Failed merges: r? @ghost
"nil" is not used in the book or in the standard library docs anywhere else. Because "nil" is often used in programming languages to refer to "None" or "null" I think it could be a little confusing for newcomers to see this type referred to as "nil".