At Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:18:14 +1000, Thomas Conway wrote: > > On 7/12/07, Andrew Coppin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's fairly common to use the Either type for this. By convention, > > "Right" means "correct", and by elimination "Left" means an error... > > Presumably, this is because the world is dominated by dull, > conventional, right handed people. :-)
Personally, I blame it on the Romans. The English word "sinister" comes from the Latin word "sinister,-tra,-trum", which originally meant "left" but took on meanings of "evil" or "unlucky" by the Classical Latin era[1]. j. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-handed _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
