From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: bad error message "defining function based on alias"
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2023 17:38:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230116163829.GA3741240@cventin.lip.ens-lyon.fr> (raw)
With zsh 5.9:
cventin% alias foo=true
cventin% foo() { }
zsh: defining function based on alias `foo'
zsh: parse error near `()'
cventin% alias bar=foo
cventin% bar() { }
zsh: defining function based on alias `foo'
zsh: parse error near `()'
cventin% unalias foo
cventin% bar() { }
zsh: defining function based on alias `bar'
zsh: parse error near `()'
The second "zsh: defining function based on alias `foo'" should
really be "zsh: defining function based on alias `bar'".
And shouldn't one get only one (more accurate) error message?
The additional "parse error" is confusing.
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2023-01-16 16:38 Vincent Lefevre [this message]
2023-01-16 17:45 ` Peter Stephenson
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