Re: few questions

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 21,  5:51pm, Zefram wrote:
}
} The ability to alias a particular pattern of quoting always seems to
} me to lack any basis in theoretical sense or in practical utility

It's not really aliasing a particular pattern of quoting.  It's aliasing
an arbitrary string of characters before quoting is stripped.  From the
viewpoint of aliases, `\ls' is not really quoting the `l'; it's simply
not the same word as `ls' at the time aliases are resolved, and therefore
doesn't match an alias for `ls'.

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