we won a bikeshedding argument in an open source project
someone wanted shorthand notation for bitwise operations: .&, .|, .^, etc. someone else suggested &b, |b, the first person insisted on .&, etc.
We parachute in and drop
ALIAS: `& bitand
ALIAS: `| bitor
ALIAS: `^ bitxor
ALIAS: `~ bitnot
ALIAS: `<< shift
: `>> ( x n -- x/2^n ) neg shift ; inline
which rather conclusively settles it, imo