Although Italian by birth, maritime explorer Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic Ocean and discovered the Americas under the Spanish emperorâs name. During his first voyage, he led three Spanish galleons, the NiÃ±a, Pinta, and the Santa Maria.
Instead of the general notion that a void is a region of space with a low cosmic mean density; a hole in the distribution of galaxies, it defines voids to be regions in which matter is escaping; which corresponds to the Dark Energy equation of state, w.
Generic top-type pointer void * that points to unspecified data and cannot be dereferenced. Here the meaning of void is different from other meanings of void: universal type vs. no type. In casts such as (void) new Foo(this) to signify that the return value is deliberately thrown away.