Re: Terminology: "exit" versus "quit"

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 1 Jul 2008, at 19:17, Shaun McCance wrote:

> And after going through Gabor's list, I think I'd instead
> make the distinction that quitting is what the user does
> and exiting is what the program does.
>
> When you quit an application, the application exits.
>
> Does that make sense?


Works for me.  That's what I was trying to get at with my distinction  
between GUI labels and their descriptions, but you just summarised it  
better :)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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