On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:50:41 -0400, Jeremie Pelletier <jerem...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Robert Jacques wrote:
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:25:07 -0400, Jeremie Pelletier
<jerem...@gmail.com> wrote:
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
[snip]
to lend
loan
lending
are all of the same root. "lent" is the passive/simple past/past
participle form of "to lend".
I guess is the French word is one of "confer\'e" or "pr\^et\'e".
Thanks! I now make the link, may I then suggest the keyword 'borrow',
seems to make more sense to me.
Borrow is a verb, borrowed would be correct noun (i.e. past tense). A
lent object and a borrowed object have practically the same meaning,
but one word has half the number of characters.
I disagree that they have the same meaning, one side lends the object
and the other borrows it :)
But I agree that it makes more sense after reading what you said, maybe
I just don't like the sound of past tense verbs in programming keywords,
are there any other such keywords in D?
shared?
Isn't there a qualifier name that would means lent or borrowed without
being past-tense, without being a verb implying it also is a function
(such as assert).
Jeremie
