Revamped concurrency API

[Jeremie Pelletier]

Robert Jacques wrote:
> 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.

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?

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