Re: (Un)Ordered lists

Geoffrey Sneddon wrote:
> 
> The definition for |ol| and |ul| says that they represent an "ordered 
> list of items" and an "unordered list of items". It doesn't say in what 
> way they are ordered. Should the definition be refined to something like 
> "A list where the order of the items has meaning."?

How is that better than "an ordered list" ?  The latter is idiomatic,
widely used and widely understood; your re-casting may be preferable
in terms of Basic English, but I am not convinced that technical
specifications can or should be expressed in B.E.

Philip TAYLOR