Hi,
Reading "man zshmisc", I found this:

  ALTERNATE FORMS FOR COMPLEX COMMANDS
         Many of  zsh's  complex  commands  have  alternate  forms.
         These  particular  versions  of complex commands should be
         considered deprecated and may be removed  in  the future.
                    ^^^^^^^^^^     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Well, why are the forms listed there considered deprecated? Just
curious...
And as far as that "may be removed" part is concerned: I vote for not
removing them :-)

CU,
Thomas

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