Revamped concurrency API

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Jeremie Pelletier wrote:
> Leandro Lucarella wrote:
>> Jeremie Pelletier, el 12 de octubre a las 22:45 me escribiste:
>>>> I agree. Particularly about lent. Immutable and mutable weren't
>>>> considered complete without const, so I'm surprised that local and
>>>> shared are considered complete without lent. You can even
>>>> implement it without escape analysis. Strangely, from what I
>>>> remember of Bartosz's posts, it was unique that was the sticking
>>>> point, though you can implement both unique and owned as library
>>>> types (though they do become less efficient).
>>> I may sound ignorant, but that does lent means? I mean the word
>>> itself, I couldn't find something relevant on google.
>>
>> The terms "unique", "shared" and "lent" used here generaly refers to
>> the terms used by Bartoz Milewski in his blog[1].
>>
>> I think he defines lent in this particular blog post[2], but maybe you
>> might need to read a couple of posts more to understand everything.
>>
>> [1] http://bartoszmilewski.wordpress.com/
>> [2] 
>> http://bartoszmilewski.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/unique_ptr-how-unique-is-it/ 
>>
>>
> 
> I know of this article, he mentions the word but he doesn't say where it 
> comes from.
> 
> My native language is french (I'm from Quebec, Canada), I don't know 
> every word of the english dictionary. That's why I asked, I'm just 
> curious as to what it meant.
> 
> I did some googling but I only landed on a religious page :/
> 
> I assume it means 'temporary shared' just like const is 'temporary 
> immutable', but if i can make a link with the english language too its 
> even better.

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".


Andrei

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