Antoine Pitrou wrote:

For a non-native English speaker, 'a' and 'b' don't evoke 'after' and
'before' but simply the first two letters of the latin alphabet, and
their ordering is therefore obvious with respect to function arguments.

It's not just non-native English speakers either. I too think of a, b as being first, second rather than after, before.


--
Steven

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