bottom type

noun

Definitions

  1. The type that is a subtype of all other types.

    • A new notion to many Java developers will be the idea that a class hierarchy can have common bottom types. These are types that are subtypes of all types. Scala's types Null and Nothing are both bottom types.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bottom type. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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