State versus Status

[Okko Huisman]

I have doubts about the usage of the word State to express the phase in the 
workflow. State is also used as the province of a country.
If I read the book from Len Silverston, state is only mentioned in regards to 
the province of a country. Status is the only word he uses to express the 
condition of Sales and Invoice. 

This I find on the web:
To describe the condition of something going through a process, use "status".
To describe the condition of something, use "state"

Hereby I want to propose to rename State into Status in cases it is not related to the State of a Country.

[Cédric Krier]

On 17/01/12 07:30 -0800, Okko Huisman wrote:
>
>
> I have doubts about the usage of the word State to express the phase in the
> workflow. State is also used as the province of a country.
> If I read the book from Len Silverston, state is only mentioned in regards to
> the province of a country. Status is the only word he uses to express the
> condition of Sales and Invoice.

Good point.

> This I find on the web:
> To describe the condition of something going through a process, use "status".
> To describe the condition of something, use "state"
>
>
> Hereby I want to propose to rename State into Status in cases it is not related to the State of a Country.

I find that status gives the feeling that it could change when state
looks more static.

But I'm not a native speaker and it will be good to have feedback from
native speakers.

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