On 08/04/2010 05:03 AM, Marc Herbert wrote: > Le 04/08/2010 11:39, Clark J. Wang a écrit : > >> Seems like I must explicitly use the `function' keyword to define foo() for >> this scenario. Is that the correct behavior? > > The correct behaviour is simply not to use aliases, since they bring nothing > to the table compared to functions.
Not _quite_ true - there are a few things aliases can do that functions cannot, and when combined, you can get some cool interactive effects (although I don't recommend relying on this in scripts): http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/aliases.html -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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