On 07/19/2017 10:32 AM, Timon Gehr wrote:
On 19.07.2017 14:13, Moritz Maxeiner wrote:
On Wednesday, 19 July 2017 at 11:35:47 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
a value of type bottom can be used to construct a value for any other
type.
AFAIK from type theory, bottom is defined as having no values (so one
can't reason about the relationship of such non-existent value(s) to
values of other types).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_explosion
Didn't know "false implies anything" comes with such a nice name.
Thanks! -- Andrei