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Here is a simple example ... def append (arg) {println "you called the append method and passed $ {arg}" def doIt () {def closure = {append 'Jeff was here.' def buffer = new StringBuffer () closure. delegate = buffer

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  1. transitive verb To add as a supplement or appendix: appended a list of errors to the report.
  2. transitive verb To fix to; attach: append a charm to the bracelet.

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  • She had done well, if the follow-up analyses and forecasts she had been allowed to append were any indication It was good while it lasted She sought desperately for ways to extend her work. —  AnalogSFF,June2006
  • ** If not changing directories set a pointer so that can just append * each new name into the path. —  SecuObs.com
  • - CHANGE: commandline options. -append becames - append (without the dot) - FIX: layout glitch on library synchronization —  KDE-Apps.org Content
  • (Let me append: by no means have "I" been under the threat that others have bourne). —  EphBlog
  • After reading a post on this forum, I append -- sar 16: 11 to my x264 script (because my source is 16: 9 and I elect to use the mpeg4 standard for PAL 16: 9) and check that this works by reading the encode log. —  Doom9's Forum
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin appendere, to hang upon : ad-, ad- + pendere, to hang; see (s)pen- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. The intransitive use is the earlier, from Middle English appenden, apenden, appenten, apenten, and by apheresis penden, penten, from Old French apendre, appendre, hang up, hang by, depend on, appertain or belong to; in transitive use modern, from French appendre, from Middle Latin appendere, intransitive, Late Latin transitive, hang, Latin appendĕre, adpendĕre, appendēre, weigh, consider, from ad, to, + pendēre, intransitive, hang, pendĕre, transitive, hang, weigh: see pendant, poise, and cf. depend, dispend, expend, spend, perpend, suspend.
 

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