From: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Bug#537596: regression: parse error near `()' in function definition
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:15:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200907200915.n6K9FgQj029187@news01.csr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <237967ef0907200210k1df76e67u16056ff1e5d1be27@mail.gmail.com>
You're right, it's not absolutely guaranteed to be safe.
Index: Etc/FAQ.yo
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RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/Etc/FAQ.yo,v
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@@ -826,7 +826,9 @@
)
Adding the quotes has no effect on the function definition, but
suppresses alias expansion for the function name. Hence this is
- guaranteed to be safe.
+ guaranteed to be safe---unless you are in the habit of defining
+ aliases for expressions such as tt('l'), which is valid, but probably
+ confusing.
sect(Similarities with tcsh)
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[not found] <20090719171651.GA7217@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>
2009-07-19 23:20 ` Clint Adams
2009-07-20 4:18 ` Bart Schaefer
2009-07-20 8:27 ` Peter Stephenson
2009-07-20 8:37 ` Mikael Magnusson
2009-07-20 8:50 ` Peter Stephenson
2009-07-20 9:10 ` Mikael Magnusson
2009-07-20 9:15 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2009-07-20 8:46 ` martin f krafft
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