[Haskell-cafe] Re: Paper draft: "Denotational design with type class morphisms"

[Robin Green]

On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:17:14 +0100
Achim Schneider <barsoap at web.de> wrote:

> Conal Elliott <conal at conal.net> wrote:
> 
> > DRAFT version ___ comments please
> >
> Conal, please, PLEASE, never, EVER again use the word "meaning" if you
> actually mean "denotation". It confuses the hell out of me, especially
> the (I guess unintended) connotation that you analyse the meaning of a
> particular instance's existence on a cosmic scale. 

It shouldn't confuse you. Using "means" for "denotes", and likewise
"meaning" for "denotation", is correct English, and very common usage
too.
-- 

Robin