Bottom type

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Does Kotlin have a bottom type (subtype of anything) like Scala? If not, I suggest to introduce it.

With a bottom type it is possible to define methods that are compatible with any return type, like this short cut to express “not implemented yet”:

def doIt(): Something = ???

Whereas ??? is an method of the type Nothing (Scala bottom type), which throws an exception at runtime.

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It's called Nothing in Kotlin as well.

3

Cool!

Is it somewhere in the docs?

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http://jetbrains.github.io/kotlin/versions/snapshot/apidocs/kotlin/Nothing.html