C.19.2:10 - Rationale

Application is the common job; selection is conditional. Starting from application preserves the frequent case in which a subject pattern is already selected and only the next useful adaptation matters. When alternatives are real, existing generation and choice patterns provide better result semantics than a fifth local decision vocabulary. Direct-kind discipline prevents an umbrella comparison word from becoming a new ontology.

The aphorism is: make the apparatus earn its setup work.