On Feb 28, 2011, at 12:07 PM, Georg Brandl wrote:
On 28.02.2011 20:58, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
Le lundi 28 février 2011 à 13:56 -0600, Benjamin Peterson a écrit :
2011/2/28 Antoine Pitrou
: On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:36:11 -0500 Terry Reedy
wrote: + an existing branch. The pusher then has to merge the superfetatory heads
'superfetatory'? I have no idea of what this is, neither does merriam-webster.com ;-).
There are some Google hits, though... Not sure if they are of people making the same mistakes as I do ;)
Endly, perhaps it will be adopted. Did you mean "superfluous" though?
I really meant superfetatory (it's slightly different: superfluous is simply useless, while superfetatory implies that it's in excess).
Maybe "supernumerary" serves?
Plain, everyday English would serve better than using words which people need to look-up. How about: "The pusher should the merge extra, unused heads" or somesuch. Raymond