Re: Having an alias and a function with the same name leads to some sort of recursion

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/7/23 12:33 PM, Dale R. Worley wrote:

>      ALIASES
>         Aliases  allow a string to be substituted for a word when it is used as
>         the first word of a simple command.
>
> That makes it clear why the second case behaves as it does.  But my
> reading of the definition of "simple commands" implies that function
> defintions are not simple commands, and alias substitution should not be
> done on them (that is, the initial part) in any case.

When you parse a command and perform alias expansion, you don't yet know if
you're reading a simple command or a function definition.

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