Nothing
scala.Nothing
Nothing
is - together with scala.Null - at the bottom of Scala's type hierarchy.
Nothing
is a subtype of every other type (including scala.Null); there exist no instances of this type. Although type Nothing
is uninhabited, it is nevertheless useful in several ways. For instance, the Scala library defines a value scala.collection.immutable.Nil of type List[Nothing]
. Because lists are covariant in Scala, this makes scala.collection.immutable.Nil an instance of List[T]
, for any element of type T
.
Another usage for Nothing is the return type for methods which never return normally. One example is method error in scala.sys, which always throws an exception.
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