What is System.Void?

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From the documentation:

The Void structure is used in the
System.Reflection namespace, but is
rarely useful in a typical
application. The Void structure has no
members other than the ones all types
inherit from the Object class.

There’s no reason really to use it in code.

Also:

var nothing = new void();

This doesn’t compile for me. What do you mean when saying it “works”?

Update:

A method void Foo() does not return anything. System.Void is there so that if you ask (through Reflection) “what is the type of the return value of that method?”, you can get the answer typeof(System.Void). There is no technical reason it could not return null instead, but that would introduce a special case in the Reflection API, and special cases are to be avoided if possible.

Finally, it is not legal for a program to contain the expression typeof(System.Void). However, that is a compiler-enforced restriction, not a CLR one. Indeed, if you try the allowed typeof(void) and look at its value in the debugger, you will see it is the same value it would be if typeof(System.Void) were legal.

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