Glossary: add new entry documenting zero-sized types#2203
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| ### Zero-sized type (ZST) | ||
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| A type is zero-sized (a ZST) if its size is 0. Such types have only one possible value. Examples include: |
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Such types have only one possible value.
We may declare the never type (i.e., the empty type) to be a ZST. So it may be more correct to say that a ZST has at most one possible value.
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