Parse, don’t validate
Parse, don’t validate
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confused java dev: what do you mean a function can't return void???
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voidin Java andVoidin Haskell are quite different. As the post explains, in Haskell it’s a type with no possible values. In Java, the equivalent would be a class without a constructor (not sure if that’s even possible). It defines a type, but you cannot construct a value or object with that type. The equivalent of Java‘s void in Haskell is the unit type()which has exactly one possible value, also called(). It can be returned by a function, but it does not give you any information, just like void. By the way, Rust also uses the unit type instead of void.-
You do have a
Voidtype in Java if you really must specify a return type and don't want to return anything e.g. services and their tasks in JavaFx. The Task must have a return type thus you can use Void if the task doesn't actually return anything.-
Well, yeah, but that
Voidtype is different than theVoidtype in Haskell.The Haskell-Void says that the function never returns. So, for example, if the function always goes into an infinite loop. Or only ever throws an exception or does a
System.exit(0). You cannot portray that in Java, to my knowledge.
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yeah that was the joke, thanks for explaining it
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