void: A Haskell 98 logically uninhabited data type

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A Haskell 98 logically uninhabited data type, used to indicate that a given term should not exist.


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Versions [RSS] 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5.0, 0.5.1, 0.5.2, 0.5.3, 0.5.4, 0.5.4.1, 0.5.4.2, 0.5.4.3, 0.5.5, 0.5.5.1, 0.5.6, 0.5.7, 0.5.8, 0.5.10, 0.5.11, 0.5.12, 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.7, 0.7.1, 0.7.2, 0.7.3, 0.7.4
Change log CHANGELOG.markdown
Dependencies base (>=4.9 && <10) [details]
Tested with ghc ==9.12.2, ghc ==9.10.3, ghc ==9.8.4, ghc ==9.6.6, ghc ==9.4.8, ghc ==9.2.8, ghc ==9.0.2, ghc ==8.10.7, ghc ==8.8.4, ghc ==8.6.5, ghc ==8.4.4, ghc ==8.2.2, ghc ==8.0.2
License BSD-3-Clause
Copyright Copyright (C) 2008-2015 Edward A. Kmett
Author Edward A. Kmett
Maintainer Edward A. Kmett <ekmett@gmail.com>
Uploaded by ryanglscott at 2025-12-08T12:14:10Z
Revised Revision 1 made by AndreasAbel at 2026-09-04T15:18:04Z
Category Data Structures
Home page http://github.com/ekmett/void
Bug tracker http://github.com/ekmett/void/issues
Source repo head: git clone https://github.com/ekmett/void.git
Distributions Arch:0.7.4, Fedora:0.7.4, LTSHaskell:0.7.4, Stackage:0.7.4
Reverse Dependencies 134 direct, 16133 indirect [details]
Downloads 324315 total (111 in the last 30 days)
Rating 2.25 (votes: 2) [estimated by Bayesian average]
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Status Docs available [build log]
Last success reported on 2026-03-16 [all 12 reports]

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void

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This package provides a canonical 'uninhabited' data type for Haskell. This arises in a surprisingly wide array of situations in practice.

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Contributions and bug reports are welcome!

Please feel free to contact me through github or on the #haskell IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.

-Edward Kmett