Re: English language basis for "throw"

[Jarkko Hietaniemi]

> 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()?

> An error is not a ball.
> 
> -- 
>       Bart.

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