Void

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The void guard, present in the universal environment, coerces all inputs to null.

It specifies that a given data flow path (particularly, a method return value) carries no information and is not used.

In E syntactic versions prior to 0.9 (before the “easy-return” syntactic feature), the default result guard for methods was void rather than any; thus the method body's return value was null unless a guard was specified.

 ? void
 # value: void
 ? void.coerce(def obj {}, throw)
 # value: null
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