Well I can live with the workaround, it is not even to cumbersome. However, I 
intuitively assumed it would be available, tried it and it was not. Anyway, I 
think it is consistent with the logic of the system, so it would not hurt.

+1


On Oct 3, 2013, at 2:56 , Eric Gallager <eg...@gwmail.gwu.edu> wrote:

> I have actually wanted something like this in base for a while now, and just 
> forgot to open a ticket about it...
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote:
> On Oct 2, 2013, at 16:49, Eric Gallager wrote:
> 
> > If it's so easy to work around it, then that means it should be pretty easy 
> > to add an alias or something that does the same thing as the workaround in 
> > base, right?
> 
> It would be implemented differently in base -- copy the -append 
> implementation and change it slightly -- but yes it would be easy to do. Here 
> it is:
> 
> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/40655
> 
> Do we want this in base? There are probably other situations where it's 
> useful too.
> 
> 
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