Listener execution order regarding wildcards

[mathulbrich]

Recently we got some strange behavior with listeners that use wildcards. Apparently those listeners are executed after others that don't have wildcard, ignoring the register order (and even prependListener priority rule). See a example bellow:

const emitter = new EventEmitter2({
  delimiter: ".",
  wildcard: true,
});

emitter.on("test.*", () => console.log(`EMITTER CALLBACK 1`));
emitter.on("test.foo", () => console.log(`EMITTER CALLBACK 2`));
emitter.emit("test.foo");

// Output
// EMITTER CALLBACK 2
// EMITTER CALLBACK 1

Shouldn't the execution order be the first listener with wildcard, then the second after? It seems that the current behavior is prioritizing the event without wildcard. The problem is still the same after change to use prependListener.

emitter.prependListener("test.*", () => console.log(`EMITTER CALLBACK 1`));
emitter.on("test.foo", () => console.log(`EMITTER CALLBACK 2`));
emitter.emit("test.foo");

// Output
// EMITTER CALLBACK 2
// EMITTER CALLBACK 1

There was another issue about this (#94), but was closed by inactivity. I want to re-open this topic again.

[klutzer]

+1