> Of course, all mention of aliases should really be removed from > POSIX - aliases are even worse than "set -e".
It should be removed because the spec is full of inaccuracies and isn't useful. People that know enough to define the standard properly have other priorities clearly. I think many of us are not inclined to follow the standard anyway because details of alias expansion easily force unacceptable constraints on the implementation that are more important than emulating historical shells. This is one among many examples where it makes little sense to point out one small difference without considering the overall design of the parser. There are more where this came from. I could write about alias bugs all day long if finding small inconsistencies is the only goal.
