Which packages are affected?

• espree
• eslint-scope
• eslint-visitor-keys

Environment

Node version: 24.1.0
npm version: 11.3.0
ESLint version: 9.28.0
Operating System: Mac OS 15.4.1

What did you do?

As far as I can see, it's not documented anywhere that visitor keys are always in source code order. However, in my opinion it's what a user would naturally expect, and this expectation seems to be confirmed because it's true for every single AST node type... With only one exception: ExportSpecifier.

export { local as exported };

In this case, exported is visited before local:

I have opened this issue as a bug report as I assume that this deviation from "visit in source code order" rule is an oversight rather than intentional. But there may be some context I am missing.

What did you expect to happen?

local to be visited before exported.

What actually happened?

exported is visited before local (more like ImportSpecifier).

Link to Minimal Reproducible Example

Participation

• I am willing to submit a pull request for this issue.

Additional comments

No response