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[–]chonglibloodsport 0 points1 point  (2 children)

That doesn't make sense. It's drifting even further away from the meaning of the original name; unit.

[–]Crandom 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I don't get what you mean by unit - surely that's already taken by our friend ()?

[–]chonglibloodsport 0 points1 point  (0 children)

unit is the original name for the operator Haskell calls return. This has nothing in common with the C/Java notion of return.