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Re: Safety guards for typos

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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Phil Pennock <zsh-workers+phil.pennock@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>, Zsh Users <zsh-users@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Safety guards for typos
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2022 18:51:31 -0800
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On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 6:11 PM Phil Pennock
<zsh-workers+phil.pennock@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I tried it and the protection doesn't appear to fire.  Is it possible
> that the examination of multiple words before the function definition
> happens prior to globbing expansion?

Yes, that's it.  It happens when "()" is tokenized.

> % *() { echo wibble }

How often would you find a glob as the first word in a command line, though?

References:
- Safety guards for typos
  - From: Phil Pennock
- Re: Safety guards for typos
  - From: Mikael Magnusson
- Re: Safety guards for typos
  - From: Phil Pennock

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