Brandon S Allbery KF8NH <allb...@ece.cmu.edu> wrote: > On 9/9/10 12:16 , Henning Thielemann wrote: > > Colin Paul Adams schrieb: > > > >> It seems to me that you want to get rid of the notion of an > >> exception as something exceptional, in which case it would be > >> better to give it a different name. > > > > English is not my native tongue. If 'abort' is more appropriate than > > 'exception' we may rename modules from Exception to Abort. > > "Abort" is even worse, as it implies *ab*normal termination (to my > mind, at least, this suggests something closer to "error" than > "exception"). In some sense this seems closer to Prolog's cut than > any kind of exception.
No, it's just a coincidence that 'abort' and 'abnormal' start with the same two letters. =) But indeed, abortion is often used for abnormal termination, not only in programming. I think one of 'to cancel' or 'to discontinue' would be more appropriate. Greets, Ertugrul -- nightmare = unsafePerformIO (getWrongWife >>= sex) http://ertes.de/ _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe