On Feb 17, 2008, at 1:12 AM, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
And left is not the opposite of correct. That would be incorrect.
Also, it is not clear to me that a failure to read a file (for
instance) is incorrect behaviour. If the file doesn't exist, then I
think it ought to be considered correct behaviour to fail to read the
file.
Well, of course correct behavior is to cope with both cases in
the most appropriate way.
If it's any consolation to those of the left handed persuasion, I
guessed
it wrong - I have used Either in this way, but Left was Success and
Right was Failure. I don't enjoy puns, and mapped to an A/B form
it seemed obvious that Success is A.
Donn Cave, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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