tclsh in interpreter-mode-alist

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

jeff-xemacs at delphioutpost.com writes:
 > 
 > interpreter-mode-alist contains the following:
 > 
 >    (...
 >     ("^#!.*sh\\b" . ksh-mode)
 >     ...
 >     ("^#!.*\\b\\(scope\\|wish\\|tcl\\|tclsh\\|expect\\)" . tcl-mode)
 >     ...)
 > 
 > 
 > executable files containing '#!/usr/bin/tclsh' have the misfortune of
 > being put into ksh-mode because tclsh ends with 'sh' and matching "^#!.*sh\\b"
 > The same problem also occurs with 'wish'.
 > 
 > The simplest fix is to change the autoload cookie in sh-script.el to append

I think it's preferable to put the more specific matcher before the
more general one.  Why not?