Revamped concurrency API
Robert Jacques
sandford at jhu.edu
Mon Oct 12 23:39:08 PDT 2009
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:25:07 -0400, Jeremie Pelletier <jeremiep at 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.
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