mikependon
Persistency is not a word
Thanks! TBH, that's already a part of the core implementation of RepoDb (i.e.: ConnectionPersistency). In anyway, is this word still understandable for use?
- https://www.dictionary.com/browse/persistency
- https://www.definitions.net/definition/persistency
dictionary.com doesn't show persistency as a word, actually, only persistence. That most likely would be because persistence is far and away the most common way to say what you’re trying to. Yours is the first use of “persistency” I can recall seeing. English dictionaries are full of words we no longer use (literally millions of them).
The word is understandable, of course, but it sounds wrong to a native English speaker.
I would also suggest that changes like this are best made now, while everything is still new, because it’ll only get more difficult (just ask Microsoft about some of their bad choices). You could, for example, duplicate or inherit from ConnectionPersistency, mark ConnectionPersistency as Obsolete, and eventually remove it.
Entirely your choice, of course :-)
Cheers Jim Cooper
On 20 Jul 2020, at 10:33, Michael Camara Pendon [email protected] wrote:
Thanks! TBH, that's already a part of the core implementation of RepoDb (i.e.: ConnectionPersistency). In anyway, is this word still understandable for use?
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Persistency is an excellent English word. Just do a search for "persistency ratio" for one example of how it is used in modern English.
It is less frequently used than persistence in non-technical settings. And persistency is very rarely used in computer science. I doubt that using persistency the way you have will cause much confusion, although it will "sound wrong" to many native speakers.
