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Re: Request about unhash / unfunction / unset

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From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Request about unhash / unfunction / unset
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 21:40:37 +0000
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On Mon, 23 Mar 2015 21:06:26 +0000
Larry Schrof <larrys@xxxxxx> wrote:
> I would like to humbly request that if zsh is asked to unhash an entry
> that is not in the hash table, it silently does nothing if the entry
> was not previously there. (Instead of generating an error message.)

In fact, unset already works like that: we changed it because that's
what the standard requires.  So it might make sense to be consistent.

I see bash is silent with "unset -f" which is unfunction but not
"unalias".

pws

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