On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Marc Herbert <marc.herb...@gmail.com> 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. Have a look at this: > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.shells.bash.bugs/13865/focus=13901 > > I do not agree. Aliases are much simpler to use than functions. I use almost all (51 out of 52) the single letters ([:alpha:]) to define aliases. I would not like a shell which has no aliases support. > > About the "function" keyword have a look at the discussion two days ago. >
