At 06:01 PM 8/15/00 +0100, Graham Barr wrote:
>Also, I have come to dislike the name `exception', its too long for me :)
>and who says we have to copy everyone else.
>
>Lookin in the thesaurus we get
>
>[Nouns] nonconformity [more]; unconformity, disconformity;
>unconventionality, informality, abnormity,
>abnormality, anomaly; anomalousness; exception, peculiarity; infraction
>of law, breach, of law, violation of law, violation of custom, violation
>of usage, infringement of law, infringement of custom, infringement
>of usage; teratism, eccentricity, bizarrerie, oddity, je ne sais quoi,
>monster, monstrosity, rarity; freak, freak of Nature, weirdo, mutant;
>rouser, snorter [U.S.].
>
>As perl is an exceptional language itself, why not have
>`freaks' instead :)
Ah:
dig_this {
# Bad-a** code
}
chill IO_Freak {
# Cool that mutha down
}
chill {
# Rethrow:
freak_out;
}
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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
