I was glad to get many replies to this post.

Aight, after a day of experimenting with the POP/ROLL/PICK scheme, I'm
starting to think that the original uxn design is better, especially
in regard to the keep mode. I understand why some forth
implementations chose that model, but I don't think it's a good way to
do things for us. That being said, I still like the order of
operations listed in the original post better than our random sequence
of stack opcodes, and so I've went ahead and moved the opcodes to
reflect that in uxn5, uxn11, drifblim, and Alderwick made the change
in uxnemu, uxnasm and asma. I suggest that you do the same in your
emulator as soon as you can, you can see the updated docs:

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/uxntal.html

I didn't expect so many people to be following this mailing list, if
you would like your reply to show up in the thread, keep the
uxn@lists.sr.ht as part of the recipient. I've been working on a
Javascript implementation so we can have little code interpreters as
part of the body of webpages, something like
https://skilldrick.github.io/easyforth/

Let me know if you have any question :)

Have a good one!

Dll