Jason McIntyre([email protected]) on 2021.08.16 12:02:13 +0100: > when i wrote my mail, i failed to understand that "overrides earlier" > was really just another way of saying "mutually exclusive". i don;t find > it as clear, and i don;t hugely like it, but i guess it's just my > preference.
Not really. I'm not a native speaker, but i would understand "mutually exclusive" to mean "program probably terminates with an error", whereas "overrides earlier" is "program uses later option and continues to do whatever its suposed to".
