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The FAQ, "function", and aliases

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From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: The FAQ, "function", and aliases
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 04:43:01 +0000
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The FAQ sayeth:

	Luckily, it is not possible to define function as an alias.

But at some point it did become possible to do so:

schaefer[529] alias function=foo
schaefer[530] function bar
zsh: command not found: foo

This is unfortunate.

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