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From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: alias hygiene
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2018 15:36:02 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1518881762.3608914.1274129584.52798C3E@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1518875676.3562728.1274073304.5ED24DC8@webmail.messagingengine.com>

Daniel Shahaf wrote on Sat, 17 Feb 2018 13:54 +0000:
> However, note also:
> 
>     % alias x='echo foo; echo bar'
>     % x qux

By the way, this alias definition isn't quite good either; it would be
better with braces or as a function, to avoid unexpected parsing.  This
is similar to the need for «do { ... } while (0)» loops in C statement macros.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-02-17 15:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-14 16:09 Ray Andrews
2018-02-17  0:30 ` Daniel Shahaf
2018-02-17  3:14   ` Ray Andrews
2018-02-17 13:54     ` Daniel Shahaf
2018-02-17 15:20       ` Ray Andrews
2018-02-17 15:30         ` Daniel Shahaf
2018-02-17 15:42           ` Ray Andrews
2018-02-17 22:04             ` Bart Schaefer
2018-02-18  0:17               ` Ray Andrews
2018-02-18  2:10                 ` Bart Schaefer
2018-02-18  3:38                   ` Ray Andrews
2018-02-19  6:37                     ` Bart Schaefer
2018-02-27 13:48           ` Vincent Lefevre
2018-02-27 15:26             ` Ray Andrews
2018-02-17 15:36       ` Daniel Shahaf [this message]
2018-02-17 21:40     ` Bart Schaefer
2018-02-18  0:08       ` Ray Andrews
2018-02-19  6:28   ` Bart Schaefer
2018-02-19 18:14     ` Ray Andrews

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