Return empty cotangent for empty primal #95
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The Jacobian for a function with an empty primal will be
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regardless of the function, which can't be multiplied by the cotangent on the output. This PR fixes #92 by detecting an empty primal and returning an empty cotangent with the same eltype as that of the cotangent of the output.