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

* Achim Schneider [2009-02-20 15:17:14 +0100]:

Conal Elliott wrote:

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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. Please. These things have neither purpose in life nor has their life any meaning, they just bleeding denote things.

The use of "meaning" in "meaning of life" is figurative / metaphorical, not literal; the literal meaning...uh...denotation is pretty much the same as what "denotation" means...uh...denotes. -- mithrandi, i Ainil en-Balandor, a faer Ambar