aliases are major essential part of functionality that u cant , and speak against , all the time , is only enemish nonsense
On Wed, Jan 18, 2023, 2:43 AM Daniel Douglas <orm...@ormaaj.ga> wrote: > > 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. > >
