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Bob Greenwade wrote on Fri, Oct 13, 2023 03:18 PM UTC:

Just throwing this out there; it'd be simple to do, I'm sure, but I'm not sure about how practical it would be.

Just as K is used as shorthand for WF and Q for RB, what if there was a shorthand atom for AND, and perhaps even one for HCZG? AND could be S (for Squirrel) and HCZG could be T (for Titan, since C for Cheetah is already in use by the Camel).

My doubt about it is whether they'd be used often enough to warrant the change. I know it'd shorten some things (Squirrel, Cheetah, Japanese Lion, Sabertooth, etc.... and, yes, the Berserker -- and I've even stumbled across a Squirrelrider); I don't know that it'd be worth this trouble. (But I do think that it's worth mentioning, which is why I'm doing so).