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On 26-04-2025 04:37, dxf wrote:
> On 26/04/2025 2:34 am, Hans Bezemer wrote:
>> ...
>> Yeah, I have helped to make a proposal for PLACE and +PLACE - which never even made it to the voting stage.
> 
> It's a nice symmetry.  OTOH the remaining vendors use APPEND and why should they change?
> 

Yes, it has symmetry with ! and +!, TO and +TO - that's why I like it 
(plus APPEND is already taken in 4tH for signalling file append mode ;-)

Why should they change it? Well, it has just become *THE STANDARD.*

Poor man's solution : +PLACE APPEND ;
Hans' solution:       AKA APPEND +PLACE
ANS 2012 solution:    SYNONYM +PLACE APPEND

Hans Bezemer