Re: bug with aliases and declaring functions

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 29,  6:08pm, Pete Fritchman wrote:
}
} 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.

Yes, that's what's happening, as is explained in zsh FAQ #2.3, except
that it's a mistake to call it "re-writing."

The discussion of aliasing in the zsh manual says "Every token in the
shell input is checked ..." -- note that it says token, indicating that
aliasing is applied after lexical analysis, and that it specifically
does not say anything about requiring spaces to surround the token.