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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

Adjective or adverb



"The restart counter is incremented and saved persistent in the YYY."

Should it be persistently?
  

Top answer

Yes, use the -ly form. It is still an odd word choice, though. I would have thought ' consistently '.

— Mister Micawber

  • Yes, use the -ly form.
  • It is still an odd word choice, though.
  • I would have thought ' consistently '.
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Yes, use the -ly form. It is still an odd word choice, though. I would have thought 'consistently'.
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Mister Micawber I would have thought 'consistently'.
That was my first reaction, but the more I contemplate the process described, the more I'm inclined toward "persistently" over "consistently."

My only problem is that the former seems to describe a conscious will, rather than a machine.
Perhaps it's found its way into the jargon.
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"persistently" may mean that the data will not be lost on power-down.
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