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 <solip...@pitrou.net>: >> > On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:36:11 -0500 >> > Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> 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? Georg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
