Hello,

In #1395 we have started the discussion about how expand applies hints
and, mainly, about the fact that, eventually, the hints are actually
applied a number of times.

I tried to find a thread on this topic, failed, and decided it would
be good to have one.

Chris said [0]:

  I tried a total rewrite of expand with hints which is very different
  from what is being done here. So as far as how to sort the keywords
  I don't have advice past the suggestion that you do the more
  dependent ones last. Does the docstring have something to say about
  that -- something about doing power_base before power_exp?

Chris, I couldn't find any mention about the order of these hints in
the docstring.

Does anyone have anything to say about why hints are actually applied
multiple times?  I know, the best way is to read the code, but, if
someone has at least a bit of that information in their mind... :-)

Sergiu

[0] https://github.com/sympy/sympy/pull/1395#discussion_r1164777

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