Isn't "transitive" the wrong word?

[JMNorris]

BCS <BCS at pathlink.com> wrote in news:ft5pqk$eam$5 at digitalmars.com:

> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Janice Caron wrote:
>> 
>>> Sorry to go all grammar/mathematics nit-picky, but isn't
>>> "transitive" completely the wrong word?
>> 
>> 
>> No, it is used in this sense in academic papers on the subject.
> 
> That might not answer the question.

To a perhaps surprising degree, that actually does answer the question. 
The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire--but was,
for all of that, the Holy Roman Empire.  If Twinkies can count as food,
then a recursive const can surely count as transitive if enough people
call it transitive.  :-)

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JMNorris