>This is countered by a few other of his own rules, such as 'prefix matches come first', 'exact matches come first'. Again, in some applications the best behavi

>This is countered by a few other of his own rules, such as 'prefix matches come first', 'exact matches come first'. Again, in some applications the best behaviour might be sorting by distance, recent use, relevance, popularity, ratings. Sorting is entirely domain-specific. I read the list as being ordered by priority. Each of the items above "should be sorted alphabetically" defines a group, and within each group items should be sorted alphabetically.