| #### Note: this error code is no longer emitted by the compiler. | |
| This error indicates that an empty match expression is invalid because the type | |
| it is matching on is non-empty (there exist values of this type). In safe code | |
| it is impossible to create an instance of an empty type, so empty match | |
| expressions are almost never desired. This error is typically fixed by adding | |
| one or more cases to the match expression. | |
| An example of an empty type is `enum Empty { }`. So, the following will work: | |
| ``` | |
| enum Empty {} | |
| fn foo(x: Empty) { | |
| match x { | |
| // empty | |
| } | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| However, this won't: | |
| ```compile_fail | |
| fn foo(x: Option<String>) { | |
| match x { | |
| // empty | |
| } | |
| } | |
| ``` |