Slick: why would I save "Unit" to my database?

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Published on 2014-05-31T15:22:22Z Indexed on 2014/05/31 15:24 UTC
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I'm new to Scala and Slick and was surprised by something in the Slick documentation:

The following primitive types are supported out of the box for JDBC-based databases in JdbcProfile

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Unit

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I don't get why this list contains Unit. From my understanding, Unit is similar to Java's void, something I neither can save to nor receive from my database. What is the intention behind it?

edit: you can find it here.

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