Graham Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Also, I have come to dislike the name `exception', its too long for me :)
> and who says we have to copy everyone else.
>
> Lookin in the thesaurus we get
>
> [Nouns] nonconformity [more]; unconformity, disconformity;
> unconventionality, informality, abnormity,
> abnormality, anomaly; anomalousness; exception, peculiarity; infraction
> of law, breach, of law, violation of law, violation of custom, violation
> of usage, infringement of law, infringement of custom, infringement
> of usage; teratism, eccentricity, bizarrerie, oddity, je ne sais quoi,
> monster, monstrosity, rarity; freak, freak of Nature, weirdo, mutant;
> rouser, snorter [U.S.].
>
> As perl is an exceptional language itself, why not have
> `freaks' instead :)
Note that exception has the advantage of being reasonably neutral on
the good/bad axis, which means that when you do something like:
try {
while (42) {
my $result = roll_the_dice;
throw Exception::Winner->new($result);
}
}
catch Exception::Winner {
print "We have a Winner!";
}
Then it doesn't seem quite so weird. Whatever word we end up with
should convey the sense of 'unusual' without any negative connotation.
IMHO of course.
--
Piers
