[Haskell-cafe] Re: Curried function terminology

Jon Fairbairn jon.fairbairn at cl.cam.ac.uk
Tue Oct 6 04:32:20 EDT 2009


David Virebayre <dav.vire+haskell at gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Jon Fairbairn
> <jon.fairbairn at cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> [1] A pet peeve of mine is "x supports y" being used backwards (as in
>> "our application supports windows Vista", which would only make sense if
>> it were something like a system tool that stopped Vista crashing.
>
> (Not a native English speaker here)
>
> How would you say  "x works well with y" ?

I think I would say "x works well with y". There's no reason to abuse
"support" (which carries an implication of one thing being on top of
another) for this.

-- 
Jón Fairbairn                                 Jon.Fairbairn at cl.cam.ac.uk
http://www.chaos.org.uk/~jf/Stuff-I-dont-want.html  (updated 2009-01-31)



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