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Mon Feb 28 21:07:58 CET 2011 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-February/108465.html

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 <solipsis at pitrou.net>:
>> > On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:36:11 -0500
>> > Terry Reedy <tjreedy at 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

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