feature request for coreutil paste

[Robert C. Kahlert]

Could paste be made to recycle the shorter input file from the top of 
the file in the case of its exhaustion--akin to the way R recycles 
vectors when splicing things together?
I envision something like --recycle.

File #1:
   abc
   def
   ghi
   jkl
   mno

File #2:
   1
   2

Output of paste file1 file2
   abc   1
   def   2
   ghi   1
   jkl   2
   mno   1
 

Thanks
--rck