Re: Bug#516998: zsh regards reserved word as candidate for alias substitution

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Clint Adams wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:18:46AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > POSIX.1-2008 says[*]:
> > 
> >   2.3.1 Alias Substitution
> >   [...] However, reserved words in correct grammatical context
> >   shall not be candidates for alias substitution.
> > 
> > [*] http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html
> #tag_18_03_01
> > 
> > but zsh gives:
> > 
> > vin% emulate sh
> > vin% alias !="echo OK"
> > vin% ! foo
> > OK foo
> > vin% 
> > 
> > instead of running command "foo". ksh93, pdksh, dash and bash
> > in POSIX mode all behave correctly.
> 
> Where it seems that "correctly" means that setting the alias
> succeeds, but ! is never substituted.

This was fixed in 26675.

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