Re: [RP] aliasing builtin commands

[Jonathan Walther]

So you are saying there should be an "alias stack" where an alias can
point to an alias can point to an alias?  What if something you define
later, "foo", depends on the aliased meaning of "bar", then you unalias
bar?  What happens to the definition of foo?  It's just better not to
let keywords be overridden.

On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 11:48:50AM +0100, Martin Samuelsson wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 02:35:31AM -0800, Jonathan Walther wrote:
> > If you did something like that, how would you get access to the original
> > builtin commands again?
>
> By using unalias first?
> The reason for creating an alias for an existing command is problary to 
> extend it's functionality.
> My opinion is that I think it should be possible.

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