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Re: zsh3.0.0 bug: aliases in if-statement

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Zsh hackers list)
Subject: Re: zsh3.0.0 bug: aliases in if-statement
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 12:55:41 +0200
In-reply-to: ""Bart Schaefer""'s message of "Tue, 01 Oct 1996 17:34:20 MET." <961001173420.ZM24672@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

"Bart Schaefer" wrote:
> IMHO, alias expansion has always happened too soon in zsh, but it greatly
> complicates matters to go around reshaping syntax trees at execution time.

Not just too soon, I've often thought, but too much.  I don't like the
following at all.

% which ls
ls: aliased to ls -F
% foo() { command ls }
% which foo
foo () {
        command ls -F
}

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