Re: ordered string-list considered harmful, was Re: [PATCH v3] Allow aliases that include other aliases

> > Does a hashmap guarantee an order?
>
> No, it definitely doesn't.
>
> I guess the reading-between-the-lines assumption that I didn't quite say
> is: I think most (if not all) of the users of sorted string lists don't
> actually care about a particular order. They just want efficient lookup.
>
> > I thought we had an example of an ordered list in the submodule code
> > but could not find it, maybe it is gone already or did not rely on the order
> > as I thought.
> >
> > It turns out we make never use of a custom compare function in
> > the stringlist, which helps gaining confidence this use case is nowhere
> > to be found in the code.
>
> Plenty of code uses the default strcmp. You can find users which assume
> sorting by their use of string_list_insert() versus _append(). Or ones
> that call string_list_sort(), of course.