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From: Richard Coleman <coleman@math.gatech.edu>
To: schaefer@nbn.com
Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: Symmetry of hash/unhash
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 17:07:59 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199606242108.RAA03506@redwood.skiles.gatech.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 23 Jun 1996 10:56:58 PDT." <960623105703.ZM13192@candle.brasslantern.com>

> Why doesn't "hash" accept "-a" for aliases, like "unhash"?  Shouldn't
> "hash -f" mean functions, like "unhash"?
> 
> Or maybe it's "unhash" that should *lose* -a and -f.  Is there any
> difference between "unalias" and "unhash -a", or "unfunction" and 
> "unhash -f"?

unhash -a and unalias are (internal) aliases for the same thing.
The same is true for unfunction and unhash -f.

It just worked out that when I has rewriting all the hash table
code that I could easily overload unhash to handle unalias and
unfunction.  The fact that you can also use unhash -a and unhash -f
is unimportant.

To try to improve the symmetry any further would just needlessly
complicate the code with little gain.

rc



      reply	other threads:[~1996-06-24 21:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-06-23 17:56 Bart Schaefer
1996-06-24 21:07 ` Richard Coleman [this message]

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