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* davidnicol@gmail.com <davidnicol@gmail.com> [2008-06-02 20:20]: > Did we agree what to call it? Insofar as `autodie` had rough consensus, yes, though I don’t see why the name shouldn’t be revisited if someone actually were to propose a clearly better alternative. > I'd like to propose "Fatalize" which can start a trend of > adding -ize to mean "Just like the legacy version, but > lexically scoped!" The problem I have with that name is that it reads awkwardly in context: `use Fatalize` feels weird in a way that neither `use Fatal` nor `use autodie` do. The originally proposed name was `lethal`, and `use lethal 'open'` reads perfectly; however, that name is less suggestive of purpose than `autodie`. While `autodie` isn’t the greatest choice for any one reason, it comes out ahead after averaging over several criteria. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>