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  1. …in reply to @IgorMinar
    @IgorMinar I would expect them to be incomparable. The semantics of next or rc are not defined anywhere. If I were a game dev, I might use gold as a synonym for rc, but that has different precedence. What if I used candidate? The fact that rc > next is pure coincidence.
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    1. …in reply to @develwoutacause
      @IgorMinar It mixes the human concern of communicating what a label means with the machine concern of ordering them. We are forced to trade off between those two concerns and pick less-than-ideal names to fit the ordering scheme we need.
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      1. …in reply to @develwoutacause
        @IgorMinar Also I'm curious how many people actually know about this behavior. It never occurred to me before and if I was picking labels, I would not have taken alphabetic ordering into account and likely shot myself in the foot.
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