[layer8]

> logically, the source must be the first one!

You mean the target, but that isn’t a logically necessary consequence at all. Conceivably, `ln` could support the following two syntaxes:

  ln [options] target
  ln [options] link_name target

The way I remember the correct parameter order is that I remember it’s the non-intuitive one.

[nice2meetu]

Ah, I remember it is the non-intuitive one, but then when I use it a while, I keep double-guessing which one is the intuitive one.

Kind of like when my wife tells me I'm doing something wrong and she wants it to be the other way.. I know she thinks this thing is important, but can't work out which way she wants it done.

[layer8]

The intuitive one is the order in which `ls` displays it, or assignment order (a := b). That’s how I remember what the intuitive order is. ;)

[naniwaduni]

Surely the intuitive order for mutating assignment is value → name, though...