[Haskell-cafe] Why Either = Left | Right instead of something like Result = Success | Failure

[Mike Dillon]

begin C. McCann quotation:
> Personally, I advocate instead using "Sinister" and "Dexter". Nice and
> catchy, don't you think?

Has anyone done a "translation" of the Prelude into Latin?

> modulus PraeLudus ubi
>
> data Uter a b = Sinister a
>               | Dexter b
>               derivare (Aequo, Ordinaro, Lego, Monstro)

Ha.

-md