Re: 'official function declaration format' doesn't work if alias defined

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/9/16 2:21 PM, Eric Cook wrote:
> In mksh, ksh93, zsh and maybe others, you can use quotes to suppress alias 
> expansions during definition just like you would a simple command; 
> unfortunately bash deems it a invalid identifier.

This is how Posix specifies it, and how the `base implementations' (ksh-88
and the SVR4 sh) behaved.  The function name has to be an identifier, and
at this point in the lexical analysis, the quotes have not been removed.

The ksh93/mksh/zsh quote removal behavior appears to be undocumented.

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