Re: English language basis for "throw"

[Dan Sugalski]

At 04:03 PM 8/15/00 -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> > Just to make sure some opposition is heard: I've always thought of
> > "throw" as very silly word. To me, a program is much like a maze, a
> > multilevel walk in an old castle. There are unexpected trapdoors, but as
> > long as they stay closed, you can simply continue. If such a trapdoor
> > open, you fall through, someimes through several floors, until somewhere
> > you encounter a safety net: you were caught. You can continue from
> > there. If there was no safety net, you keep falling, well, into the
> > water, out of the castle (er, "program".)
>
>Hmmm...trip() and trap()?  fail() and deal()?

freak() (or panic) and cope().

Think anyone'd get cranky if we named the default error handling sub for a 
package PROZAC? :-)

                                        Dan

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