Void is surprisingly useful. [LWN.net]

Void is surprisingly useful.

Posted Sep 13, 2026 9:35 UTC (Sun) by koflerdavid (subscriber, #176408)
In reply to: Void is surprisingly useful. by alx.manpages
Parent article: Stabilizing Rust's never type

Thanks for showing this, I didn't know this compiles.

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Posted Sep 13, 2026 11:31 UTC (Sun) by alx.manpages (subscriber, #145117) [Link]

Another --more interesting-- example is with the ternary operator:

#define assert(e)  ((e) ? (void)0 : abort())