Re: problem anomalies , possibly aliases related

[Martin D Kealey]

On Fri, 21 Jul 2023, 04:09 Greg Wooledge, <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 12:33:07AM +1000, Martin D Kealey wrote:
> > Saying that this *ought* to be done using aliases is not reasonable, as
> it
> > means forgoing the other stuff that functions can do, like taking
> > parameters, declaring local variables, or returning a status.
>
> Well in any case, the behavior you wanted is not reliable […] even across
> versions of bash.
>

Well sure, it's not reliable NOW but it worked for 20+ years before the
change in 4.4.

Since I now need to use a work around for versions 4.4 through 5.2 there's
little point in pushing for reinstatement, and that's not really my point.

Rather, I'm making the point that features I (and likely others) depend on
seem to keep getting arbitrarily broken.

This is an appeal to anyone looking at the next bug report and thinking
"this behaviour is obviously unneeded": before you make a PR to kill it,
please dream more about potential uses and users.

-Martin

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