On 2024-01-18 08:20, Mark J. Reed wrote:
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> Even if it were changed such that it started to do so as of 6.0 or 
> whatever, you'd still have to write code to check the version

I'm not qualified to disagree with that, still I'm curious: if the 
arrays were sorted (alphabetical is perhaps 'obvious') what could that 
ever break?  Since the order now is indeterminate, who/what would ever 
actually rely on that?  As if the order were depended on to be random.  
Really?  So if they were sorted, who would know or care *unless* the 
decided to take advantage of it? Seems to me to be the sort of thing 
that can't possibly have any gotchas.