From: Pete Fritchman <petef@databits.net>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: bug with aliases and declaring functions
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:08:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050830010813.BEF5357B2D@hex.databits.net> (raw)
Hi,
$ alias foo='echo test|sort'
$ foo() { echo func; }
$ sort
func
$
If instead you declare the function with the function keyword, i.e.
function foo() { echo func; }
expected behavior occurs. So, my theory is that the zsh parser is
re-writing 'foo() { echo func; }' to 'foo () { echo func; }' and then
'foo ' is seen at the beginning of the command, and foo's alias is
substituted. This is also a useful test to see what's happening:
$ alias foo='echo test|sort'
$ set -x
$ foo() { echo func; }
+-/bin/zsh:5> echo test
$ foo () { echo func; }
+-/bin/zsh:6> echo test
$ set +x
$ declare -f
[...]
sort () {
echo func
}
$
If this difference in behavior between 'foo() { ... }' and
'function foo() { ... }' is expected, I think it should be documented
somewhere. Of course, I think this is a bug and should probably
be fixed :-) BTW, as a data point: the same thing happens in bash.
thanks,
--
petef
next reply other threads:[~2005-08-30 1:35 UTC|newest]
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2005-08-30 1:08 Pete Fritchman [this message]
2005-08-30 15:21 ` Bart Schaefer
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