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

[aditya siram]

> Monstro
I'm going to call it that from now on. Stay out of the IO Monstro.

-deech

On 5/27/10, Mike Dillon <mike at embody.org> wrote:
> 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
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