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Changes between Initial Version and Version 52 of Ticket #12718

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 To allow plugins to add a menu item at the end of a group, we use a bunch of additional global variables that remember the last element in each group.
+To allow plugins to add a menu item at the end of a group, we use a bunch of additional global variables that remember the last element in each group.
 It's very low level.
+Also, we use arbitrary numeric indexes to specify the order of the items, instead of being able to position items relative to one another.
+Things would be a lot easier if groups were built in:
+{{{
+$menu = array(
+    'dashboard' => array(
+        [5] => array('Dashboard', ...
+    ),
+    'object' => array(
+        [5] => array('Posts', ...)
+        [10] => array('Media', ...)
+        ...
+    ),
+    'utility' => array(
+        [5] => array('Posts', ...)
+        [10] => array('Media', ...)
+        ...
+    ),
+)
+}}}
+With this structure, separators could be inserted automatically in the right places. Also, you wouldn't have to worry about adding 'menu-top-first' and 'menu-top-last' classes.
+It's all very low level. Things would be a lot easier if we had an actual API for manipulating the menu items.