POSIX bashing

[Thaddeus P. Floryan]

In article <7021 at segue.segue.com> jim at segue.segue.com (Jim Balter) writes:
>[...]
>Hopefully, though, the atrocious "prepend", which is used in place
>of "prefix" for no good reason and made it into the C Standard, will not.
>[...]

Oh?

append  "xyz" to "ABC" gives "ABCxyz"
prepend "xyz" to "ABC" gives "xyzABC"

Looks to me like "prepend" is the antonym of "append" and is not directly
related to "prefix" (whose antonym is "suffix).

If you can suggest or conjure-up a better "verb" to replace "prepend", I'm
sure the lexicographers would annoint you.  :-)

Thad Floryan [ thad at btr.com (OR) {decwrl, mips, fernwood}!btr!thad }