Idris2/libs/prelude/Prelude/Uninhabited.idr

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module Prelude.Uninhabited
import Builtin
import Prelude.Basics
%default total
||| A canonical proof that some type is empty.
public export
interface Uninhabited t where
||| If I have a t, I've had a contradiction.
||| @ t the uninhabited type
uninhabited : t -> Void
||| The eliminator for the `Void` type.
%extern
public export
void : (0 x : Void) -> a
export
Uninhabited Void where
uninhabited = id
||| Use an absurd assumption to discharge a proof obligation.
||| @ t some empty type
||| @ a the goal type
||| @ h the contradictory hypothesis
public export
absurd : Uninhabited t => (h : t) -> a
absurd h = void (uninhabited h)