From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Phil Sainty Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#34641: rx: (or ...) order unpredictable Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2019 12:48:33 +1300 Message-ID: References: <836B8DC2-9358-40AC-83AF-7C4D960D9A53@acm.org> <83bm31ngzp.fsf@gnu.org> <065957BB-1332-458B-8757-742A81CED4A5@acm.org> <83bm2th2wu.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="240848"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.2.1 Cc: 34641@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii , Mattias =?UTF-8?Q?Engdeg=C3=A5rd?= Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 03 00:49:16 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1h0ENX-0010Xq-DE for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Mar 2019 00:49:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60285 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h0ENW-0000h2-Ef for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Mar 2019 18:49:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:49064) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h0ENQ-0000gl-P5 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Mar 2019 18:49:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h0ENL-0002dy-Tn for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Mar 2019 18:49:04 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:44411) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h0ENK-0002dc-Rr for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Mar 2019 18:49:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1h0ENK-0007dS-Fe for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Mar 2019 18:49:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Phil Sainty Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2019 23:49:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 34641 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 34641-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B34641.155157051929318 (code B ref 34641); Sat, 02 Mar 2019 23:49:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 34641) by debbugs.gnu.org; 2 Mar 2019 23:48:39 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57955 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1h0EMx-0007co-12 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 02 Mar 2019 18:48:39 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp-4.orcon.net.nz ([60.234.4.59]:52708) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1h0EMv-0007ce-18 for 34641@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 02 Mar 2019 18:48:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [150.107.172.103] (port=44669 helo=[192.168.20.103]) by smtp-4.orcon.net.nz with esmtpa (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1h0EMr-0002Zf-U6; Sun, 03 Mar 2019 12:48:34 +1300 In-Reply-To: <83bm2th2wu.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Language: en-GB X-GeoIP: NZ X-Spam_score: -2.9 X-Spam_score_int: -28 X-Spam_bar: -- 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: 209.51.188.43 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:155979 Archived-At: >> +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