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rx: (or ...) order unpredictable

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Message #52 received at 34641 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
To: Phil Sainty <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 34641 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34641: rx: (or ...) order unpredictable
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2019 09:54:13 +0100

3 mars 2019 kl. 00.48 skrev Phil Sainty <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz>:
> 
>>> +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.

You are right, and I wasn't happy with the negative name either.
Would KEEP-ORDER do?

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