Re: English language basis for "throw"

[Stephen P. Potter]

Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> whispered:
| At 04:03 PM 8/15/00 -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
| > > 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().

I think fail() and handle() are good.  Something fail()ed and it was
handle()d by an exception.

-spp