Well, I don't know, it seems to me that use cases where the declaration order matters (name clash, overloading...) are relatively rare, so it's rarely needed to concatenate more than a couple of paths. So maybe the index argument would be overcomplicated.
I can say the same as Roman: I'm personally quite happy with the [declare] system as it is now!
However, old patches that used "-stdpath" don't work on newer setups, where externals are no longer stored in "standard" directories.
Are "-stdpath" and "-stdlib" still absolutely necessary today? If they weren't, they could be made equivalent to "-path" and "-lib" so every choice would work.
Maybe a startup flag could then restore the original behavior, if needed.
(reposting with correct subject line)
Perhaps [declare] needs an order index argument, similar to [gemhead #] to clearly specify order when required?
Perhaps for use with "nested" code, use of abstractions, possibly in
other abstractions etc.
yes and it would be better readable than a long list of "-path ..."s with linebreaks ...
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