[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #57403] pkg.m loads packages before their dependencies

[Markus Mützel]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #57403 (project octave):

You are right. The calls to reverse in lines 2559 and 2568 are there to allow
adding the paths one by one (from right to left) to the front of the load path
such that they do NOT appear in reverse order after they are added.
But probably that is just two different ways of thinking about the same
thing.
I believe Octave behaves Matlab compatible in this respect and also follows
the principle of least surprise (at least for me). In the end, why should the
order of precedence of the given paths be different dependent on whether they
are added to the front or the back of the load path?
Also the sentence you proposed doesn't seem to be right if the paths are added
to the end of the load path.

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