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Re: Problematic change in alias behavior in pre3

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Zsh hackers list)
Subject: Re: Problematic change in alias behavior in pre3
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 12:03:25 +0200
In-reply-to: "schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"'s message of "Sun, 21 Jul 1996 11:51:35 MET." <960721115135.ZM19185@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> It's not sufficient to assign incmdpos=0 when ENVARRAY, because then this
> kind of thing fails:
> 
> zsh% alias foo='echo help'
> zsh% show=(stuff) foo bar
> zsh: command not found: foo

No objection to the fix, but is it clear this is kind of thing is
useful anyway?  Arrays don't seem to get exported in this fashion, not
even space-concatenated.

% show=stuff zsh -c 'printenv show'
stuff
% show=(stuff) zsh -c 'printenv show'
<zilch>

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References:
- Re: Problematic change in alias behavior in pre3
  - From: Bart Schaefer

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