May 15, 2003

prepend

/pree`pend´/ vt.

[by analogy with ‘append’] To prefix. As with ‘append’ (but not ‘prefix’ or ‘suffix’ as a verb), the direct object is always the thing being added and not the original word (or character string, or whatever). If you prepend a semicolon to the line, the translation routine will pass it through unaltered.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:34 AM

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