This reflects the fact that positions stored in matches are
absolute positions, while Position type is used in the
language as position relative to current position in the
sentence context. So mixing the two was confusing at the very least.
This also actually fits the most recent version of spec,
which no longer mentions Position, either.

It was looking for minimum value and Position::Nowhere is
the smallest you can get value-wise (min_int). So if there was
an empty Match in a vector, first_token for the vector would
always end up returning Position::Nowhere, which was wrong
(empty submatches should've been ignored and Position::Nowhere
returned only if there were no non-empty alternatives).

So it's clear it's not about MatchRule at all.