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On 2017-12-31 04:56, Robert Armstrong wrote: Well, you could argue that "trap" is appropriate as it is synchronous to instruction execution. Hence my comments. It is appropriate to call it trap because of that property. Basically, anything that comes out of a software construct has to be a trap. But it's asynchronous to your program flow. So AST is maybe not such a bad word for it. But of course, this is all splitting hairs. I find it a good term, but I'm okay with finding it a bad one. But it is still worth noting that SST also does exist. (And asynchronous interrupt would be an ugly term, and confusing, I think. There isn't necessarily any interrupt related to the trap at all, and just trap and interrupt by themselves already have established meanings in computers, as you note, and ASTs are not truly well described by either term.) Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol