CompoundLimiter is accepting requests when the limit was reached previously.

When processing the limiters and the first one consumes exactly all the remaining tokens (remaining=0, accepted=true) and the next one already reached the limit previously (remaining=0, accepted=0) the $minimalRateLimit is considered the first one that will accept the request (even if it's not the most restrictive).

For example:
CompoundLimiter includes 2 limiters:

• limiter 1 - remaining 2 tokens
• limiter 2 - remaining 0 tokens

After consuming 2 tokens each each limiter generates to limits:

• limiter1->consume(2), generates a limit indicating0 remaining tokens,accepts the request (it was last permitted)
• limiter2->consume(2), generates a limit indicating0 remaining tokens,did not accept the request (it did not have 2 tokens to satisfy the request)

Because both of them have at this moment0 remaining tokens, the minimum limit that is returned will be the limit from thelimiter1 . This means that the CompundLimiter will accept the request, even if thelimiter2 should be more restrictive.

If we switch the order in the constructor, the request will be denied. The order should not matter.