From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Compiled files ignore aliases
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 10:43:14 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <160205104314.ZM29996@torch.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKc7PVBeEpTN9jTg9HQE_ycuOP+jFGEFQZ4hoz8oT8LRDogcYg@mail.gmail.com>
On Feb 5, 6:24pm, Sebastian Gniazdowski wrote:
}
} Yes I thought about it and it's reasonable, though unsymmetrical. Zwc
} changes things, there isn't full symmetry when sourcing file already
} parsed or not, but see *. The "reasonable" is that parsing probably
} does lookup each word in a hash table to see if there is an alias for
} it. Compiling means skipping that time consuming process.
By analogy, "alias" in shell is more like "#define" in C. Once you've
compiled, the macro expansion is already done and doesn't happen again.
You can intentionally trigger alias expansion by using "eval", which is
(in this analogy) re-compiling at run time.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-05 18:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-05 15:33 Sebastian Gniazdowski
2016-02-05 16:37 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-02-05 17:24 ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2016-02-05 18:43 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
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