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Sat, 9 Dec 2017 16:27:56 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0002.oracle.com (abhmp0002.oracle.com [141.146.116.8]) by aserv0121.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.13.8) with ESMTP id vB9GRtEk014204; Sat, 9 Dec 2017 16:27:56 GMT In-Reply-To: <<837etwuqgx.fsf@gnu.org>> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9.1 (1003210) [OL 16.0.4627.0 (x86)] X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5900 definitions=8739 signatures=668644 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 suspectscore=0 malwarescore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 spamscore=0 mlxscore=0 mlxlogscore=700 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1711220000 definitions=main-1712090236 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:140862 Archived-At: > > Shouldn't the doc say something about the order of the elements of the > > alist? It's a history, but neither the Elisp manual nor the doc string > > mentions whether the beginning or the end of the list is the oldest > > part of the history of loads. >=20 > Since it's an alist, and every element should be there only once, why > does the order matter? Because it's a history? We already tell users, by using that name, that it is chronological. What we don't tell them is which chronological order is used. If someone is looking for something, it helps to know whether the list order is old-to-new or new-to-old. And if someone locates something of interest in the list it helps to know whether it is the stuff that comes before or after it that was loaded when it got loaded. Is there some reason not to mention the order? We do, after all, bother to call it `*-history'.