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From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>,
	Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>,
	Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
	Git mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: error codes on exit
Date: Tue, 25 May 2021 13:43:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <60ad453d2153e_2901820821@natae.notmuch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMMLpeR5S3Ps4C2V4QuTxrCRB_iRsUKyCNOJ4G7Fy7jGe98ZbA@mail.gmail.com>

Alex Henrie wrote:
> On Sat, May 22, 2021 at 3:19 PM Felipe Contreras
> <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:

> > > Though abnormal and atypical often have different implications ;-)
> >
> > Or USUAL.
> 
> The words "typical" and "usual" have the same problem of making it
> sound like there was no error.

Not to me. "Usual" is typically an adjective, which makes me think: usual
what? (something is missing). Although both can be used as nouns ("the
usual", "the new normal") in this context "usual" is much less confusing
(I don't recall hearing "the command returned usual status").

-- 
Felipe Contreras

  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-25 18:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-19 23:34 RFC: error codes on exit Jonathan Nieder
2021-05-20  0:40 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-21 16:53   ` Alex Henrie
2021-05-21 23:20     ` H. Peter Anvin
2021-05-22  4:06       ` Bagas Sanjaya
2021-05-22  8:49       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-22  9:08         ` H. Peter Anvin
2021-05-22 21:22         ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-22 21:29           ` H. Peter Anvin
2021-05-22 21:53             ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-22 23:02               ` H. Peter Anvin
2021-05-22  9:12     ` Philip Oakley
2021-05-22 21:19       ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-25 17:24         ` Alex Henrie
2021-05-25 18:43           ` Felipe Contreras [this message]
2021-05-20  0:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-20  1:19   ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-20  1:55   ` Jonathan Nieder
2021-05-20  2:28     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-20 13:28 ` Jeff King
2021-05-20 17:47   ` Jonathan Nieder
2021-05-21  9:43     ` Jeff King
2021-05-20 15:09 ` Jeff Hostetler
2021-05-21  1:33   ` brian m. carlson
2021-05-21  1:20 ` brian m. carlson
2021-05-26  8:21 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason

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