On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 01:05:59PM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> Date: Sun, 27 May 2018 13:05:59 -0400
> From: Chet Ramey <[email protected]>
> To: Mike Jonkmans <[email protected]>, [email protected],
>  [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: BASH_ALIASES assignment allow special characters
> Reply-To: [email protected]
> 
> On 5/27/18 4:20 AM, Mike Jonkmans wrote:
> 
> > Bash Version: 4.4
> > Patch Level: 19
> > Release Status: release
> > 
> > Description:
> >     The special array BASH_ALIAS allows assignment/creation of aliases with
> >     special characters in it.
> >     Though these characters would error when used in an alias statement.
> 
> Thanks for the report. I suppose it's better to report an error on
> assignment instead of simply never allowing the alias `name' to be used.
> 
> -- 
> ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
>                ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
> Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    [email protected]    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/

Indeed, an immediate error upon assignment is less confusing.

Regards,

-- 
Mike Jonkmans <[email protected]>

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