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"Bart Schaefer" wrote:
> IMHO, alias expansion has always happened too soon in zsh, but it greatly
> complicates matters to go around reshaping syntax trees at execution time.

Not just too soon, I've often thought, but too much.  I don't like the
following at all.

% which ls
ls: aliased to ls -F
% foo() { command ls }
% which foo
foo () {
        command ls -F
}

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