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rx: (or ...) order unpredictable

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From: Phil Sainty <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
Cc: 34641 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#34641: rx: (or ...) order unpredictable
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2019 12:48:33 +1300

>> +The optional argument NOREORDER, if nil, allows the returned

Could we change that name to have a positive sense?

Boolean arguments with a negative sense/meaning are invariably
more awkward to read than ones with a positive meaning, IMO.

NOREORDER set to nil means "No NOREORDER" (aka "Reorder").  Those
double-negatives should be avoided whenever it's simple do do so,
as they make things harder for anyone reading the documentation.

We could use KEEP-ORDER or RETAIN-ORDER or SAME-ORDER or anything
along those lines, and then a 'true' value matches the positive
sense of the name, which is much nicer.


-Phil

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