>> The names `mzero' and `mfail' are horrible. I like Ralph's suggestion
>> to change `fail' to `raise' in the IO monad, and use `fail' for
>> `mfail'. If that doesn't work, try something else, but please
>> pick names that have a simple meaning in English (as with `return')
>> not monsters like `mzero' and `mfail'. -- P
>
>I don't like grabbing too many very generic names like zero, plus, fail
>from the user (this is all in the Prelude, remember). I don't want
>to grab 'raise' because we're going to want it for exceptions in Haskell
>2. I havn't been able to think of anything better than these monsters.
"throw" is another possibility. Of course, someone might want to use this identifier
in a continuation monad.
--FC
