Brandon S Allbery KF8NH
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/