I could not find that this is directly stated ...
You didn't look very hard. In the third reply to the post you quote it say "That method preserves the order of the original array ".
In reply to Re: Order in which grep/map receive elements
by BrowserUk
in thread Order in which grep/map receive elements
by abufct
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