@Greenonline, the person whose the answer was accepted, says: "but a negative priority looks odd, and using a negative priority to denote higher priority would seem a bit wrong, in a lower-number-high-priority system". In higher-number-higher-priority context, negatives are things you don't mind about, not so much, naturally. More @Wikipedia
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