How about: "tocsin"

toc.sin    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (tksn)
n. 

An alarm sounded on a bell. 
A bell used to sound an alarm. 
A warning; an omen. 


-----Original Message-----
From: Gordon Henriksen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 2:52 PM
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Subject: RE: Events (I think we need a new name)


Matt Fowles wrote:

> I think Page already has a different meaning in computers, 
> namely a page of memory.

Not to mention a web page.

> For what it is worth, I support event as the name.

Being as I think I'm largely responsible for the sense that the name
needs to be changed, I should point out that I do actually support
calling these events--so long as they're modified to play nice with OS
event loops. Upon reflection, that just requires a means to
synchronously dispatch an event to a handler chain from a C callback.

-- 

Gordon Henriksen
IT Manager
ICLUBcentral Inc.
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